The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published, Volume 10Bickers, 1883 |
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... wholly given up to the critics : let them use it as they please posterity , perhaps , may be more favourable to me ; for interest and passion will lie buried in another age , and par- tiality and prejudice be forgotten . I speak of my ...
... wholly given up to the critics : let them use it as they please posterity , perhaps , may be more favourable to me ; for interest and passion will lie buried in another age , and par- tiality and prejudice be forgotten . I speak of my ...
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... wholly to his business , as a commentator upon the Tale of a Tub , wherein it cannot be denied that he hath been of some service to the public , and hath given very fair con- jectures towards clearing up some difficult pas- sages ; but ...
... wholly to his business , as a commentator upon the Tale of a Tub , wherein it cannot be denied that he hath been of some service to the public , and hath given very fair con- jectures towards clearing up some difficult pas- sages ; but ...
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... wholly out of the method and scheme he had in- tended ; for it was the ground - work of a much larger discourse ; and he was sorry to observe the materials so foolishly employed . • There is one farther objection made by those who have ...
... wholly out of the method and scheme he had in- tended ; for it was the ground - work of a much larger discourse ; and he was sorry to observe the materials so foolishly employed . • There is one farther objection made by those who have ...
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... wholly free from that slavery which booksellers usually lie under , to the caprice of authors ; I think it a wise piece of presumption to inscribe these papers to your lordship , and to implore your lordship's protection of them . God ...
... wholly free from that slavery which booksellers usually lie under , to the caprice of authors ; I think it a wise piece of presumption to inscribe these papers to your lordship , and to implore your lordship's protection of them . God ...
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... wholly illiterate , and has hardly produced one writer upon any subject . I know very well , that when your highness shall come to riper years , and have gone through the learning of antiquity , you will be too curious , to neglect ...
... wholly illiterate , and has hardly produced one writer upon any subject . I know very well , that when your highness shall come to riper years , and have gone through the learning of antiquity , you will be too curious , to neglect ...
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Page 49 - To conclude from all, what is man himself but a microcoat, or rather a complete suit of clothes with all its trimmings ? As to his body there can be no dispute ; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress : to instance no more ; is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, selflove a surtout, vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches, which, though a cover for lewdness as well...
Page 99 - Because, first, it is generally affirmed, or confessed, that learning puffeth men up : and secondly, they proved it by the following syllogism : " Words are but wind ; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Page 115 - J than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies ; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite through.
Page 54 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment found these words ; item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, etc., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Page 175 - The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts you came to the centre, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defence.
Page 176 - Thrice he endeavoured to force his passage, and thrice the centre shook The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was approaching to her final dissolution ; or else, that Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects whom his enemy had slain and devoured.
Page 188 - The brave ancient suddenly started, as one possessed with surprise and disappointment together: for the helmet was nine times too large for the head, which appeared situate far in the hinder part, even like the lady in a lobster, or like a mouse under a canopy of state, or like a shrivelled beau, from within the penthouse of a modern periwig : and the voice was suited to the visage, sounding weak and remote.
Page 69 - Dining one day at an alderman's in the city, Peter observed him expatiating, after the manner of his brethren, in the praises of his sirloin of beef. Beef...
Page 178 - I am glad," answered the bee, " to hear you grant, at least, that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts, without designing them for the noblest ends. I visit, indeed, all the flowers and blossoms of the field and...
Page 46 - On their first appearance, our three adventurers met with a very bad reception ; and soon with great sagacity guessing out the reason, they quickly began to improve in the good qualities of the town : they writ, and rallied, and rhymed, and sung, and said, and said nothing : they drank, and fought, and whored, and slept, and swore, and took snuff...