The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 1. kötetC. Bathurst, 1755 |
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37. oldal
... sometimes lasted near a month . D. S.262 . Till this time he had continued his vifits to Vanessa , who , though she had fuffered very great pecuniary loffes , had yet preserved her reputation and her friends , for fhe was vifited by ...
... sometimes lasted near a month . D. S.262 . Till this time he had continued his vifits to Vanessa , who , though she had fuffered very great pecuniary loffes , had yet preserved her reputation and her friends , for fhe was vifited by ...
48. oldal
... sometimes feemed at a stand , if not to flow , his hope of a parting interview revived , and he fet out for Ireland as foon as he was able to travel . He found her alive , but , after having languished about two months longer , the ...
... sometimes feemed at a stand , if not to flow , his hope of a parting interview revived , and he fet out for Ireland as foon as he was able to travel . He found her alive , but , after having languished about two months longer , the ...
50. oldal
... sometimes reproached him with unkindness ; for to fuch regret and reproach he certainly alludes in the following verfes on her birth - day , in 1726 : O , then , whatever Heav'n intends , Take pity on your pitying friends ; Nor let your ...
... sometimes reproached him with unkindness ; for to fuch regret and reproach he certainly alludes in the following verfes on her birth - day , in 1726 : O , then , whatever Heav'n intends , Take pity on your pitying friends ; Nor let your ...
51. oldal
... sometimes corrupted ; and , if he could ab- ftain from gratifying thefe paffions with a lady whom he most admired , after the gratification was become lawful , he cannot with any appearance of reafon be supposed to have indulged the ...
... sometimes corrupted ; and , if he could ab- ftain from gratifying thefe paffions with a lady whom he most admired , after the gratification was become lawful , he cannot with any appearance of reafon be supposed to have indulged the ...
28. oldal
... sometimes tenderly affects me to confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the present scene , yet I must needs fubscribe to ...
... sometimes tenderly affects me to confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the present scene , yet I must needs fubscribe to ...
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173. oldal - In the proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than curiosity, so far preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface to that pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes gravely back with informations and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing.
140. oldal - Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail. For, to enter the Palace of Learning at the great Gate, requires an Expence of Time and Forms; therefore Men of much Haste and little Ceremony, are content to get in by the Back-Door.
24. oldal - In the Attic commonwealth,* it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public...
4. oldal - Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
245. oldal - ... defence. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below : when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose curiosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he...
57. 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.
312. oldal - Too intense a contemplation is not the business of flesh and blood; it must by the necessary course of things, in a little time let go its hold and fall into matter. Lovers, for the sake of celestial converse, are but another sort of Platonics who pretend to see stars and heaven in ladies...
246. oldal - I am glad," answered the bee, "to hear you grant at least that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts without designing them for the noblest ends.
171. oldal - ... whether things that have place in the imagination may not as properly be said to exist as those that are seated in the memory...
45. oldal - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.