The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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9. oldal
... least . But foon with like occafions preft , He boldly fent his hand in queft ( Infpir'd with courage from his bride ) To reach the pot on t'other fide : And as he fill'd the reeking vafe , 190 Let fly a roufer in her face . THE little ...
... least . But foon with like occafions preft , He boldly fent his hand in queft ( Infpir'd with courage from his bride ) To reach the pot on t'other fide : And as he fill'd the reeking vafe , 190 Let fly a roufer in her face . THE little ...
15. oldal
... least of all their crimes : Some who can perjure through a two - inch board , Yet keep their bishopricks , and ' fcape the cord . Like hemp , which , by a skillful fpinfter drawn To flender threads , may fometimes pafs for lawn . As ...
... least of all their crimes : Some who can perjure through a two - inch board , Yet keep their bishopricks , and ' fcape the cord . Like hemp , which , by a skillful fpinfter drawn To flender threads , may fometimes pafs for lawn . As ...
19. oldal
... least , before your master's debts are paid . Nor in a palace , built with charge immenfe , Prefume to treat him at his own expence . Each farmer in the neighbourhood can count , To what your lawful perquifites amount . The tenants poor ...
... least , before your master's debts are paid . Nor in a palace , built with charge immenfe , Prefume to treat him at his own expence . Each farmer in the neighbourhood can count , To what your lawful perquifites amount . The tenants poor ...
64. oldal
... least ; And when Apollo ftruts on Pindus , We fee him from our kitchen - windows ; Or to Parnaffus , looking down , Can p - fs upon his laurel crown . FATE never form'd the gods to fly ; In vehicles they mount the sky : When Jove would ...
... least ; And when Apollo ftruts on Pindus , We fee him from our kitchen - windows ; Or to Parnaffus , looking down , Can p - fs upon his laurel crown . FATE never form'd the gods to fly ; In vehicles they mount the sky : When Jove would ...
90. oldal
... least acquainted ! It is the fame cafe in every other qualification . By the multitude of those who deal in rhymes , from half a ' fheet to twenty , which come out every minute , there ⚫ must be at least five hundred poets in the city ...
... least acquainted ! It is the fame cafe in every other qualification . By the multitude of those who deal in rhymes , from half a ' fheet to twenty , which come out every minute , there ⚫ must be at least five hundred poets in the city ...
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203. oldal - ... durable qualities. You have but a very few years to be young and handsome in the eyes of the world, and as few months to be so in the eyes of a husband who is not a fool ; for I hope you do not still dream of charms and raptures, which marriage ever did, and ever will, put a sudden end to.
169. oldal - Simplicity, without which no human Performance can arrive to any great Perfection, is no where more eminently useful than in this.
36. oldal - In bulk there are not more degrees, From elephants to mites in cheese, Than what a curious eye may trace In creatures of the rhyming race. From bad to worse, and worse, they fall ; But who can reach the...
85. oldal - When beasts could speak, (the learned say They still can do so every day,) It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men. It happen'd, when a plague broke out, (Which therefore made them more devout,) The king of brutes (to make it plain, Of quadrupeds I only mean) By proclamation gave command, That every...
40. oldal - Let them rave at making laws ; While they never hold their tongue, Let them dabble in their dung : Let them form a grand committee, How to plague and starve the city ; Let them...
31. oldal - Then, poet, if you mean to thrive, Employ your Muse on kings alive ; With prudence gathering up a cluster Of all the virtues you can muster, Which, form'd into a garland sweet, Lay humbly at your monarch's feet :. Who, as the odours reach his throne, Will smile, and think them all his own...
197. oldal - ... and, although they may be, and too often are, drawn by the temptations of youth, and the opportunities of a large fortune, into some irregularities when they come forward into the great world, it is ever with reluctance and compunction of mind, because their bias to virtue still continues.
178. oldal - I have been better entertained, and more informed by a few pages in the Pilgrim's Progress, than by a long discourse upon the will and the intellect, and simple or complex ideas.
375. oldal - Your good behaviour on this article will concern your whole community: deny the fact with all solemnity of imprecations: a hundred of your brethren, if they can be admitted^, will attend about the bar, and be ready upon demand to give you a...
204. oldal - ... so your sex employs more thought, memory, and application to be fools, than would serve to make them wise and useful. When I reflect on this, I cannot conceive you ' to" be human creatures, but a sort of species hardly a degree above a monkey/ who...