The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 1C. Pathurst, 1754 |
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Page xiii
... a differtation on fam- plars and other pieces of bur- lefque on the Royal Society , and the art of cookery in imi- tation of Horace's art of poe- try , & c . tempts tempts in nature , to turn into ridicule by a AN APOLOGY . Xiii.
... a differtation on fam- plars and other pieces of bur- lefque on the Royal Society , and the art of cookery in imi- tation of Horace's art of poe- try , & c . tempts tempts in nature , to turn into ridicule by a AN APOLOGY . Xiii.
Page xiv
... turn into ridicule by a week's labour a work , which had coft fo much time , and met with fo much fuc- cefs in ridiculing others : the manner how he handled his fubject I have now forgot , having just looked it over , when it first came ...
... turn into ridicule by a week's labour a work , which had coft fo much time , and met with fo much fuc- cefs in ridiculing others : the manner how he handled his fubject I have now forgot , having just looked it over , when it first came ...
Page xxvii
... turn going out of his way to be waggish , to tell us of a cow that pricked up her tail ; and , in his anfwer to this dif- course he fays , it is all a farce and a ladle ; with other paffages equally fhining . One may fay of these ...
... turn going out of his way to be waggish , to tell us of a cow that pricked up her tail ; and , in his anfwer to this dif- course he fays , it is all a farce and a ladle ; with other paffages equally fhining . One may fay of these ...
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... like friends fide by fide , ferious and merry by turns- diverting others juft as we di- verted ourselves . Letter of Pope to Swift , March 8 , 1726-7 . reader gay reader will have the whole in his poffeffion , 4 THE PREFACE .
... like friends fide by fide , ferious and merry by turns- diverting others juft as we di- verted ourselves . Letter of Pope to Swift , March 8 , 1726-7 . reader gay reader will have the whole in his poffeffion , 4 THE PREFACE .
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... turn to dispose of it ; yet whatever attonement was due to Swift for his lordship's late breach of engagement , the fecretary having received a bribe , the deanery was given to another upon pretence that Swift who was then more than ...
... turn to dispose of it ; yet whatever attonement was due to Swift for his lordship's late breach of engagement , the fecretary having received a bribe , the deanery was given to another upon pretence that Swift who was then more than ...
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