The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page cix
... writers as he ought to be . She then ventured to ask the Dean , whe- ther he thought the lines Mr Pope addresses him with in the beginning of the Dunciad , were any compliment to him viz . O thou ! whatever title please thine ear . " I ...
... writers as he ought to be . She then ventured to ask the Dean , whe- ther he thought the lines Mr Pope addresses him with in the beginning of the Dunciad , were any compliment to him viz . O thou ! whatever title please thine ear . " I ...
Page cxvii
... writer . The truth of this af fertion will more evidently appear , by comparing him . with fome of the authors of his own ... writers . They continually vary in their manner , and treat different topics in a different ftyle . When the ...
... writer . The truth of this af fertion will more evidently appear , by comparing him . with fome of the authors of his own ... writers . They continually vary in their manner , and treat different topics in a different ftyle . When the ...
Page cxxiii
... writers whom he has a mind to ex- pofe . I fhall produce one inftance ; it is in the 29th page . Dryden , L'Eftrange , and fome others I fhall not name , are here levelled at ; who , having fpent their lives in faction and apoftafies ...
... writers whom he has a mind to ex- pofe . I fhall produce one inftance ; it is in the 29th page . Dryden , L'Eftrange , and fome others I fhall not name , are here levelled at ; who , having fpent their lives in faction and apoftafies ...
Page cxxiii
... writer called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatire well directed ; for I have been told Sir William Temple was fufficiently mortified at the term . All the men of wit and politeness were immediately up in arms , through ...
... writer called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatire well directed ; for I have been told Sir William Temple was fufficiently mortified at the term . All the men of wit and politeness were immediately up in arms , through ...
Page cxxiii
... writer's head , nor will ( he is fure ) into that of any reader of taste and candour . He allows two , or three at moft , there produced , to have been delivered unwarily ; for which he defires to plead the excufe offered already , of ...
... writer's head , nor will ( he is fure ) into that of any reader of taste and candour . He allows two , or three at moft , there produced , to have been delivered unwarily ; for which he defires to plead the excufe offered already , of ...
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