The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tab, Battle of the Books, Gulliver's Travels, Directions to Servants, Art of Punning, Etc, 1. kötetHector McLean, 1823 |
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39. oldal
... sort of provision for our's , wherein I speak the sentiment of the very newest , and consequently the most orthodox refiners , as well as my own , However , being extremely solici tous that every accomplished person who has got into the ...
... sort of provision for our's , wherein I speak the sentiment of the very newest , and consequently the most orthodox refiners , as well as my own , However , being extremely solici tous that every accomplished person who has got into the ...
43. oldal
... sort of mistake , that because nettles have the prerogative to sting , therefore all other weeds must do so too . I make not this comparison out of the least design to detract from these worthy writers ; for it is well known among ...
... sort of mistake , that because nettles have the prerogative to sting , therefore all other weeds must do so too . I make not this comparison out of the least design to detract from these worthy writers ; for it is well known among ...
67. oldal
... sort of idol † , who , as their doctrine delivered , did daily create men , by a kind of manufactory operation . This idol they placed in the highest parts of the house , on an altar , erected about three foot . He was shewn in the ...
... sort of idol † , who , as their doctrine delivered , did daily create men , by a kind of manufactory operation . This idol they placed in the highest parts of the house , on an altar , erected about three foot . He was shewn in the ...
76. oldal
... sort of flame - coloured satin for linings ; and the mercer brought a pattern of it imme . diately to our three gentlemen . ' An't please your worships , ( said he ) My lord C- and sir J. W. had linings out of this very piece last night ...
... sort of flame - coloured satin for linings ; and the mercer brought a pattern of it imme . diately to our three gentlemen . ' An't please your worships , ( said he ) My lord C- and sir J. W. had linings out of this very piece last night ...
78. oldal
... sort of silver - fringe upon or about their " said coats , " & c . with a penalty in case of dis- obedience , too long here to insert . However , after some pause , the brother so often mentioned for his erudition , who was well skilled ...
... sort of silver - fringe upon or about their " said coats , " & c . with a penalty in case of dis- obedience , too long here to insert . However , after some pause , the brother so often mentioned for his erudition , who was well skilled ...
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Æolists Æsop affirm allowed ancient answer appeared better body bookseller brain brother called church Church of England church of Rome coat common deduced digression discourse discover dispute ears endeavours Epicurus eyes famous farther favour fortune friends genius give hand happened hath head honour horse human humour invention Irenæus Jack JONATHAN SWIFT labour ladies Latria learning mankind matter means method modern Momus nature never nose observed occasion pains panegyric Paracelsus person Phalaris piece Pindar polite present pretend proceed produce reader reason refined religion resolved Roundheads satire Scythian seems shew side sinful age Sir William Temple spirit spleen swearing Swift Tale talent things thought tion town treatise true critic turn vapour virtue vulgar Latin wherein whereof whole wholly wise wonderful word Wotton writers Xenoph
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210. oldal - ... by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all, but flybane and a cobweb ; or that which, by a universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax.
69. oldal - What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of...
137. oldal - ... first, it is generally affirmed or confessed that learning puffeth men up : and, secondly, they proved it by the following syllogism : " Words are but wind, and learning is nothing but words ; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
59. oldal - Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg ; but then lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.
196. oldal - Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
207. oldal - ... which, yielding to the unequal weight, sunk down to the very foundation. Thrice he endeavoured to force his passage, and thrice the centre shook. The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed, at first, that nature was approaching to her final dissolution ; or else, that Beelzebuh, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects, whom this enemy had slain and devoured.
302. oldal - Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
32. oldal - I do therefore affirm upon the word of a sincere man, that there is now actually in being a certain poet called John Dryden, whose translation .of Virgil was lately printed in a large folio, well bound, and if diligent search were made, for aught I know, is yet to be seen.
155. oldal - Epicurus, content his ideas with the films and images that fly off upon his senses from the superficies of things...
298. oldal - The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation to posterity, let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know,- and what omissions he most laments.