The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen Volumes. ...John Donadlson [sic], London, 1774 |
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xx. oldal
... reason which she and her com- panion then gave for their leaving England was , that in Ireland the intereft of money was high , and provifions were cheap . But what- ever was Swift's attachment to Mifs Johnfon , every poffible ...
... reason which she and her com- panion then gave for their leaving England was , that in Ireland the intereft of money was high , and provifions were cheap . But what- ever was Swift's attachment to Mifs Johnfon , every poffible ...
xxix. oldal
... reason , - that he employed this time upon Gulliver's Travels . This work is a moral political ro mance , in which Swift has exerted the ftrong- eft efforts of a fine irregular genius ; but while his imagination and wit delight , it is ...
... reason , - that he employed this time upon Gulliver's Travels . This work is a moral political ro mance , in which Swift has exerted the ftrong- eft efforts of a fine irregular genius ; but while his imagination and wit delight , it is ...
xxxvii. oldal
... reason was fubverted , and his rage became abfolute madness . In October his left eye fwelled to the fize of an egg , and feveral large oils broke out in his arms and body ; the extreme pain of which kept him awake near a month , and ...
... reason was fubverted , and his rage became abfolute madness . In October his left eye fwelled to the fize of an egg , and feveral large oils broke out in his arms and body ; the extreme pain of which kept him awake near a month , and ...
xxxviii. oldal
... reason , after his madness ended in ftupor , feem to prove , that his diforder , whatever it was , had not deftroyed , but only fufpended the powers of his mind . In 1744 , he now and then called his fervant by name ; and once ...
... reason , after his madness ended in ftupor , feem to prove , that his diforder , whatever it was , had not deftroyed , but only fufpended the powers of his mind . In 1744 , he now and then called his fervant by name ; and once ...
liv. oldal
... reason to think , there is no fuch thing , as a " fincere friend to be met with in the world . " . " Why , " replied he , " authors are as jealous of " their prerogative as kings : and can no more " bear a rival in the empire of wit ...
... reason to think , there is no fuch thing , as a " fincere friend to be met with in the world . " . " Why , " replied he , " authors are as jealous of " their prerogative as kings : and can no more " bear a rival in the empire of wit ...
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176. oldal - So that, in short, the question comes all to this; whether is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride...
228. oldal - Sundays than other days? is not that the chief day for traders to sum up the accounts of the week, and for lawyers to prepare their briefs? But I would fain know, how it can be pretended, that the churches are misapplied? where are more appointments and rendezvouses of gallantry?
175. oldal - Your livelihood is a universal plunder upon nature ; a freebooter over fields and gardens ; and, for the sake of stealing, will rob a nettle as easily as a violet.
224. oldal - ... it is confidently reported that two young gentlemen of real hopes, bright wit, and profound judgment, who upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning...
226. oldal - It is likewise urged that there are, by computation, in this kingdom above ten thousand parsons, whose revenues added to those of my lords the bishops would suffice to maintain at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure and free-thinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices; who might be an ornament to the Court and Town. And then again, so great a number of able [bodied] divines might be a recruit to our fleet and armies.
62. oldal - These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning that those beings, which the world calls improperly suits of clothes, are in reality the most refined species of animals ; or, to proceed higher, that they are rational creatures, or men.
132. oldal - Last Week I saw a Woman flay'd, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her Person for the worse. Yesterday I ordered the Carcass of a Beau to be stript in my Presence; when we were all amazed to find so many unsuspected Faults under one Suit of Cloaths: Then I laid open his Brain, his Heart, and his Spleen; But, I plainly perceived at every Operation, that the farther we proceeded, we found the Defects encrease upon us in Number and Bulk...
175. oldal - You boast, indeed, of being obliged to no other creature, but of drawing and spinning out all from yourself ; that is to say, if we may judge of the liquor in the vessel by what issues out, you possess a good plentiful store of dirt and poison in your breast...
223. oldal - To offer at the restoring of that would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations; to destroy at one blow all the wit, and half the learning of the kingdom; to break the entire frame and constitution of things; to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences with the professors of them; in short, to turn our courts, exchanges, and shops into...
42. oldal - Tis but a ball bandied to and fro, and every man carries a racket about him, to strike it from himself, among the rest of the company.