The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page lxxv
... least five and twenty years , he could no longer endure thofe pleasures and amusements whicht on his public days were conducted , under the eyes and direction of his beloved Stella , with the greatest elegance and decorum . And ...
... least five and twenty years , he could no longer endure thofe pleasures and amusements whicht on his public days were conducted , under the eyes and direction of his beloved Stella , with the greatest elegance and decorum . And ...
Page lxxxiii
... least . pang or convulfion , in the 78th year of his age . [ vol . 4 .. P. 347. ] By his will , which is dated in May 1740 , just before he ceased to be a reasonable being , he left about 1200 1 . in fpecific legacies , and the reft of ...
... least . pang or convulfion , in the 78th year of his age . [ vol . 4 .. P. 347. ] By his will , which is dated in May 1740 , just before he ceased to be a reasonable being , he left about 1200 1 . in fpecific legacies , and the reft of ...
Page ciii
... least as per- fect , as the most famous of his contemporaries . His first setting out in the world may be thought fomewhat fingular , in this profane , hypocritical , corrupted age . We are affured from his own accounts , that his ideas ...
... least as per- fect , as the most famous of his contemporaries . His first setting out in the world may be thought fomewhat fingular , in this profane , hypocritical , corrupted age . We are affured from his own accounts , that his ideas ...
Page cxvii
... least he increased in Ireland . They are without a pa- rallel , I hope they will ever remain fo . The first of them arofe merely from his love of flattery , with which he See the papers called the Freeholder . was was daily fed in that ...
... least he increased in Ireland . They are without a pa- rallel , I hope they will ever remain fo . The first of them arofe merely from his love of flattery , with which he See the papers called the Freeholder . was was daily fed in that ...
Page cxxiii
... least as long as our language and our taste admit no great alterations , I am content to convey fome apology along with it . THE greatest part of that book was finished about thirteen years fince , 1696 ; which is eight years before it ...
... least as long as our language and our taste admit no great alterations , I am content to convey fome apology along with it . THE greatest part of that book was finished about thirteen years fince , 1696 ; which is eight years before it ...
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