The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1766 |
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Page 30
... these accounts , however contradictory , may both be true , and that Swift at this time might be the Sacheverel of Ireland , followed by the mob of one faction with execrations , and by the other with fhouts of applause . It is ...
... these accounts , however contradictory , may both be true , and that Swift at this time might be the Sacheverel of Ireland , followed by the mob of one faction with execrations , and by the other with fhouts of applause . It is ...
Page 48
... These complaints were afterwards repeated in a ftrain of yet greater fenfibility and felf - pity : All my friends , fays he , have forfaken me ... 1 . Vertiginofus , inops , furdus , malè gratus amicis . Deaf , giddy , helpless , left ...
... These complaints were afterwards repeated in a ftrain of yet greater fenfibility and felf - pity : All my friends , fays he , have forfaken me ... 1 . Vertiginofus , inops , furdus , malè gratus amicis . Deaf , giddy , helpless , left ...
Page 52
... these fits , the effect of which was fo dreadful , that he left the poem ' unfinished , and never afterwards attempted a compofi- tion either in verfe or profe that required a courfe of thinking , or perhaps more than one fitting to ...
... these fits , the effect of which was fo dreadful , that he left the poem ' unfinished , and never afterwards attempted a compofi- tion either in verfe or profe that required a courfe of thinking , or perhaps more than one fitting to ...
Page 62
... these women were most of them old , deformed , or crippled , and fome were all three . He faluted them with great kindness , afked how they throve , and what stock they had ; if the ware of any of them was fuch as he could poffibly ufe ...
... these women were most of them old , deformed , or crippled , and fome were all three . He faluted them with great kindness , afked how they throve , and what stock they had ; if the ware of any of them was fuch as he could poffibly ufe ...
Page 66
... these he built J. R. 8. and furnished a little alms - house , being affifted by fome voluntary contributions , and preferved among them uncommon cleanliness and decency , by constantly vifiting them in perfon . It has already been ...
... these he built J. R. 8. and furnished a little alms - house , being affifted by fome voluntary contributions , and preferved among them uncommon cleanliness and decency , by constantly vifiting them in perfon . It has already been ...
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