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. Bathurst, 1764 |
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Page x
... piece ; fo we ftill read Mar- vel's anfwer to Parker with pleasure , though the book it answers be funk long ago ; fo the earl of Orrery's remarks will be read with de- light , when the differtation he expofes will neither be fought nor ...
... piece ; fo we ftill read Mar- vel's anfwer to Parker with pleasure , though the book it answers be funk long ago ; fo the earl of Orrery's remarks will be read with de- light , when the differtation he expofes will neither be fought nor ...
Page xi
... pieces of burlefque on the Royal Society , and the art of cookery in imitation of Horace's art of poetry , & c . + This we cannot recover at present , it being so abfolutely forgotten , the oldest booksellers in trade remember nothing ...
... pieces of burlefque on the Royal Society , and the art of cookery in imitation of Horace's art of poetry , & c . + This we cannot recover at present , it being so abfolutely forgotten , the oldest booksellers in trade remember nothing ...
Page i
... piece of prefumption to inscribe these papers to your lordship , and to implore your lordship's protection of them . God and your lordship know their faults , and their merits ; for , as to my own particular , I am altoge- ther a ...
... piece of prefumption to inscribe these papers to your lordship , and to implore your lordship's protection of them . God and your lordship know their faults , and their merits ; for , as to my own particular , I am altoge- ther a ...
Page 8
... piece of juftice to a larger work ; wherein I intend to write a character of the prefent fet of wits in our nation : their perfons I fhall defcribe particularly and at length , their genius and understandings in mignature . In Bentley ...
... piece of juftice to a larger work ; wherein I intend to write a character of the prefent fet of wits in our nation : their perfons I fhall defcribe particularly and at length , their genius and understandings in mignature . In Bentley ...
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... piece of wit , and which is apt to fuf- fer fo much in the carriage . Some things are extreamly witty to - day , or fafting , or in this place , or at eight a clock , or over a bottle , or fpoke by Mr. Whatd'y'call'm , or in a fum ...
... piece of wit , and which is apt to fuf- fer fo much in the carriage . Some things are extreamly witty to - day , or fafting , or in this place , or at eight a clock , or over a bottle , or fpoke by Mr. Whatd'y'call'm , or in a fum ...
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