The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, 3. kötetW. Durell, 1812 |
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215. oldal - Your inherent portion of dirt does not fail of acquisitions, by sweepings exhaled from below; and one insect furnishes you with a share of poison to destroy another. 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, feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all, but flybane and a cobweb; or that which, by an universal range,...
79. oldal - Look on this globe of earth, you will find it to be a very complete and fashionable dress. What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green? or the sea, but a waistcoat of water-tabby.
154. oldal - The two senses to which all objects first address themselves are the sight and the touch ; these never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies ; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting and opening and mangling and piercing, offering to demonstrate that they are not of the same consistence quite thro'.
214. oldal - I am glad," answered the bee, " to hear you grant, at least, that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice...
275. oldal - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs (all covered with powder) that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the...
153. oldal - For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition ; that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceiled.
154. oldal - 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 increase upon us in number and bulk...
78. oldal - I must, with the reader's good leave and patience, have recourse to some points of weight, which the authors of that age have not sufficiently illustrated. For about this time it happened a sect arose, whose tenets obtained and spread very far, especially in the grand monde, and among everybody of good fashion. They worshipped a sort of idol, who, as their doctrine delivered, did daily create men by a kind of manufactory operation.
60. 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.
202. 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 reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.