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 vii
... produce one inftance ; it is in the 44th page . Dryden , L'E- Arange , B 4 Letter of enthusiasm , fuppofed to have been written by Col. Hunter : fee Swift's letter to him , in the laft of these volumes . frange , and fome others . I ...
... produce one inftance ; it is in the 44th page . Dryden , L'E- Arange , B 4 Letter of enthusiasm , fuppofed to have been written by Col. Hunter : fee Swift's letter to him , in the laft of these volumes . frange , and fome others . I ...
Page xiii
... produced , to have been delivered un- warily ; for which he defires to plead the ex- cufe offered already , of his youth , and frank- ness of speech , and his papers being out of his power at the time they were published . But this ...
... produced , to have been delivered un- warily ; for which he defires to plead the ex- cufe offered already , of his youth , and frank- ness of speech , and his papers being out of his power at the time they were published . But this ...
Page xiv
... produces three inftances to prove this author's wit is not his own in many places . The firft is , that the names of Peter , Martin , and Jack , are borrowed from a letter of the late * duke of Buckingham . Whatever wit is con- tained ...
... produces three inftances to prove this author's wit is not his own in many places . The firft is , that the names of Peter , Martin , and Jack , are borrowed from a letter of the late * duke of Buckingham . Whatever wit is con- tained ...
Page xvi
... produce any book they please , he defies them to fhew one fingle particular , where the judicious reader will affirm he has been obliged for the fmalleft hint ; giving only allowance for the accidental encounter- ing of a fingle thought ...
... produce any book they please , he defies them to fhew one fingle particular , where the judicious reader will affirm he has been obliged for the fmalleft hint ; giving only allowance for the accidental encounter- ing of a fingle thought ...
Page iv
... no virtue , either of a public or private life , which fome circumftances of your own have not often produced upon the ftage of the world ; and thofe few , which , for for want of occasions to exert them , might otherwise ív DEDICATION .
... no virtue , either of a public or private life , which fome circumftances of your own have not often produced upon the ftage of the world ; and thofe few , which , for for want of occasions to exert them , might otherwise ív DEDICATION .
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