The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page civ
... allowed " to publish to the world thofe virtues we have not , " that we are commanded to hide even from ourselves " those we really have , and not to let our right hand " know what our left hand does ; unlike several " branches of the ...
... allowed " to publish to the world thofe virtues we have not , " that we are commanded to hide even from ourselves " those we really have , and not to let our right hand " know what our left hand does ; unlike several " branches of the ...
Page cix
... allowed to fay fo , envious remarks on the fuccefs of the Beggar's opera . The Dean very frankly owned , he did not think Mr Pope was fo candid to the merit of other writers as he ought to be . She then ventured to ask the Dean , whe ...
... allowed to fay fo , envious remarks on the fuccefs of the Beggar's opera . The Dean very frankly owned , he did not think Mr Pope was fo candid to the merit of other writers as he ought to be . She then ventured to ask the Dean , whe ...
Page cxxiii
... allowed to have any merit . They are indeed like annuals that grow about a young tree , and feem to vie with it for a fummer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard writ his book ...
... allowed to have any merit . They are indeed like annuals that grow about a young tree , and feem to vie with it for a fummer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard writ his book ...
Page xiii
... allowed to be vexed ; but it is an odd kind of revenge to go to cuffs in broad day with the firft he meets with , and lay the last night's injury at his door . And thus much for this difcreet , candid , pious , and ingenious anfwerer ...
... allowed to be vexed ; but it is an odd kind of revenge to go to cuffs in broad day with the firft he meets with , and lay the last night's injury at his door . And thus much for this difcreet , candid , pious , and ingenious anfwerer ...
Page 14
... allowed fufficient authority . For it is here to be noted , that praife was originally a penfion paid by the world : but the moderns , finding the trouble and charge too great in collecting it , have lately bought out the fee - fimple ...
... allowed fufficient authority . For it is here to be noted , that praife was originally a penfion paid by the world : but the moderns , finding the trouble and charge too great in collecting it , have lately bought out the fee - fimple ...
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