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 xi
... turn into ridi- cule by a week's labour a work , which had coft fo much time , and met with fo much fuccefs in ridiculing others : the manner how he handled his fubject I have now forgot , having juft looked it over , when it first came ...
... turn into ridi- cule by a week's labour a work , which had coft fo much time , and met with fo much fuccefs in ridiculing others : the manner how he handled his fubject I have now forgot , having juft looked it over , when it first came ...
Page xxi
... turn going out of his way to be waggifh , to tell us of a cow that pricked up ber tail ; and , in his an- fwer to this difcourfe , he fays , it is all a farce and a ladle ; with other paffages equally thin- ing . One may fay of thefe ...
... turn going out of his way to be waggifh , to tell us of a cow that pricked up ber tail ; and , in his an- fwer to this difcourfe , he fays , it is all a farce and a ladle ; with other paffages equally thin- ing . One may fay of thefe ...
Page 8
... turns . Farther I avow to your highness , that with these eyes I have beheld the perfon of William Wot- ton , B. D. who has written a good fizeable volume against a friend of your governor + ( from whom alas he must therefore look for ...
... turns . Farther I avow to your highness , that with these eyes I have beheld the perfon of William Wot- ton , B. D. who has written a good fizeable volume against a friend of your governor + ( from whom alas he must therefore look for ...
Page 32
... turn them off before they can reach within many steps of the top : and because it is a preferment attained by transferring of propriety , and a confounding of meum and tuum . Under the fage - itinerant are couched thofe productions ...
... turn them off before they can reach within many steps of the top : and because it is a preferment attained by transferring of propriety , and a confounding of meum and tuum . Under the fage - itinerant are couched thofe productions ...
Page 40
... turning ; from a head broken in a hundred places by the malignants of the oppofite factions ; and from a body spent with poxes ill cured , by trufting to bawds and furgeons , who , as it afterwards appeared , were profeffed enemies to ...
... turning ; from a head broken in a hundred places by the malignants of the oppofite factions ; and from a body spent with poxes ill cured , by trufting to bawds and furgeons , who , as it afterwards appeared , were profeffed enemies to ...
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