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 ix
... writers , whom he has a mind to expose . I fhall produce one inftance ; it is in the 61ft page . Dryden , L ' Eftrange , and fome others I fhall not name , are here levelled at , who having spent their lives in faction , and apoftacies ...
... writers , whom he has a mind to expose . I fhall produce one inftance ; it is in the 61ft page . Dryden , L ' Eftrange , and fome others I fhall not name , are here levelled at , who having spent their lives in faction , and apoftacies ...
Page xv
... writer called his ad- versary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fufficiently mortified at the term . All the men of wit and politeness were immediately up in arms through in ...
... writer called his ad- versary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fufficiently mortified at the term . All the men of wit and politeness were immediately up in arms through in ...
Page xvi
... writer's head , nor will ( he is fure ) into that of any reader of taste and candor ; he allows two or three at most , there pro- duced , to have been delivered unwarily ; for which he defires to plead the excuse offered already , of ...
... writer's head , nor will ( he is fure ) into that of any reader of taste and candor ; he allows two or three at most , there pro- duced , to have been delivered unwarily ; for which he defires to plead the excuse offered already , of ...
Page xvii
... writer in the world ; and he thought , of all criti- cifms , that would never have been one . He conceived , it was never difputed to be an original , whatever faults it might have . However , this anfwerer produces three inftances to ...
... writer in the world ; and he thought , of all criti- cifms , that would never have been one . He conceived , it was never difputed to be an original , whatever faults it might have . However , this anfwerer produces three inftances to ...
Page xix
... writer , than the charac- ter of a plagiary ; which he here fixes at a venture ; and this not for a paffage , but a whole discourse , taken out from another book , only mutatis mutandis . The author is as much in the dark about this ...
... writer , than the charac- ter of a plagiary ; which he here fixes at a venture ; and this not for a paffage , but a whole discourse , taken out from another book , only mutatis mutandis . The author is as much in the dark about this ...
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