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
... writers , whom he has a mind to expofe . I fhall 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 ...
... writers , whom he has a mind to expofe . I fhall 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 ...
Page xii
... writer called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fuf- ficiently mortified at the term . Áll the men of wit and politenefs were immediately up in arms through ...
... writer called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fuf- ficiently mortified at the term . Áll the men of wit and politenefs were immediately up in arms through ...
Page xiii
... writer's head , nor will ( he is fure ) into that of any reader of taste and candour ; he allows two or three at most , there produced , to have been delivered un- warily ; for which he defires to plead the ex- cufe offered already , of ...
... writer's head , nor will ( he is fure ) into that of any reader of taste and candour ; he allows two or three at most , there produced , to have been delivered un- warily ; for which he defires to plead the ex- cufe offered already , of ...
Page xiv
... writer in the world ; and he thought , of all criticifins , that would never have been one . He conceived , it was never difputed to be an original , what- ever faults it might have . However , this an- fwerer produces three inftances ...
... writer in the world ; and he thought , of all criticifins , that would never have been one . He conceived , it was never difputed to be an original , what- ever faults it might have . However , this an- fwerer produces three inftances ...
Page xv
... greater moment ? I know nothing more contemptible in a writer than the character of a plagiary ; which he here fixes at a venture ; and this not for a paffage , but 1 but a whole difcourfe , taken out from ano- AN APOLOGY . XV.
... greater moment ? I know nothing more contemptible in a writer than the character of a plagiary ; which he here fixes at a venture ; and this not for a paffage , but 1 but a whole difcourfe , taken out from ano- AN APOLOGY . XV.
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