The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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... present writers exprefs themselves , fitted to the humour of the age ; as they have already done , with great felicity , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other authors . However , I thought it fairer deal- ing to offer the ...
... present writers exprefs themselves , fitted to the humour of the age ; as they have already done , with great felicity , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other authors . However , I thought it fairer deal- ing to offer the ...
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... present set of wits in our nation . Their perfons I fhall defcribe particulary , and at length ; their genius and understandings in mignature . In the mean time , I do here make bold to prefent your Highness with a faithful abftract ...
... present set of wits in our nation . Their perfons I fhall defcribe particulary , and at length ; their genius and understandings in mignature . In the mean time , I do here make bold to prefent your Highness with a faithful abftract ...
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... present scene ; yet I must needs subscribe to the juftice of this proceeding ; because I cannot ima- gine why we should be at expence to furnish wit for fuc- ceeding ages , when the former have made no fort of provifion for ours ...
... present scene ; yet I must needs subscribe to the juftice of this proceeding ; because I cannot ima- gine why we should be at expence to furnish wit for fuc- ceeding ages , when the former have made no fort of provifion for ours ...
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... present treatife , being juft come from having the honour conferred upon me , to be adopted a member of that illuftrious fraternity . Now , I am not unaware how the productions of the Grub - ftreet brotherhood have of late years fallen ...
... present treatife , being juft come from having the honour conferred upon me , to be adopted a member of that illuftrious fraternity . Now , I am not unaware how the productions of the Grub - ftreet brotherhood have of late years fallen ...
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... present . For we are ready to produce a cata- logue of fome thousands , which in all common juftice ought to be intitled to our fraternity , but , by the revolt- ed and new - fangled writers , moft perfidiously afcribed to the others ...
... present . For we are ready to produce a cata- logue of fome thousands , which in all common juftice ought to be intitled to our fraternity , but , by the revolt- ed and new - fangled writers , moft perfidiously afcribed to the others ...
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