The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page lxxxiii
... says , " Since women have been left out of all " meetings , except parties at play , or where worse de- figns are carried on , our converfation has very much " degenerated + . " And in this inftance , his example is a reproof to thofe ...
... says , " Since women have been left out of all " meetings , except parties at play , or where worse de- figns are carried on , our converfation has very much " degenerated + . " And in this inftance , his example is a reproof to thofe ...
Page cii
... a one , I have heard , is a very great man ; or , Such a one , they say , has abundance of learning ; or , Such a one , I have been ! told , told , has an excellent understanding ; but God deliver сп CHARACTERS OF DR SWIFT .
... a one , I have heard , is a very great man ; or , Such a one , they say , has abundance of learning ; or , Such a one , I have been ! told , told , has an excellent understanding ; but God deliver сп CHARACTERS OF DR SWIFT .
Page cxix
... say this , I think every man of wit has right to laugh at fools , who give offence , or at coxcombs , who are public nufances . Swift indeed has left no weapon of farcafm untried , no branch of fatire uncultivated : but while he has ...
... say this , I think every man of wit has right to laugh at fools , who give offence , or at coxcombs , who are public nufances . Swift indeed has left no weapon of farcafm untried , no branch of fatire uncultivated : but while he has ...
Page cxxv
... says , what he chiefly dif- likes , is the defign . What that was , I have already told ; and I believe there is not a perfon in England who can understand that book , that ever imagined it to have been any thing elfe , but to expose ...
... says , what he chiefly dif- likes , is the defign . What that was , I have already told ; and I believe there is not a perfon in England who can understand that book , that ever imagined it to have been any thing elfe , but to expose ...
Page cxxv
... says they have been all of his fide , enough to give him the vanity of telling his name , wherein the world , with all its wife conjectures , is yet very much in the dark which circumftance is no difagreeable amule- ment , either to the ...
... says they have been all of his fide , enough to give him the vanity of telling his name , wherein the world , with all its wife conjectures , is yet very much in the dark which circumftance is no difagreeable amule- ment , either to the ...
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Page lxxxiv - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.