The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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55. oldal
... meats , Are really but vulgar treats : Inftead of spoils of Perfian looms , The coftly boafts of regal rooms , Thought it more courtly and difcreet To scatter rofes at her feet ; Roses of richest dye that shone With native luftre , like ...
... meats , Are really but vulgar treats : Inftead of spoils of Perfian looms , The coftly boafts of regal rooms , Thought it more courtly and difcreet To scatter rofes at her feet ; Roses of richest dye that shone With native luftre , like ...
60. oldal
... meat , nor their graces the ducheffes ; but the graces which attended on Venus . Not Flanders lace , but gold and filver lace . By borrowed , is meant fuch as run in honeft tradefmens debts for what they were not able to pay , as many ...
... meat , nor their graces the ducheffes ; but the graces which attended on Venus . Not Flanders lace , but gold and filver lace . By borrowed , is meant fuch as run in honeft tradefmens debts for what they were not able to pay , as many ...
86. oldal
... meat fhall represent the tyrant's head , The wine , his blood , our predeceffors fhed ; Whilft an alluding hymn fome artist fings , We toaft confufion to the race of kings ; At monarchy we nobly fhew our fpight , And talk what fools ...
... meat fhall represent the tyrant's head , The wine , his blood , our predeceffors fhed ; Whilft an alluding hymn fome artist fings , We toaft confufion to the race of kings ; At monarchy we nobly fhew our fpight , And talk what fools ...
94. oldal
... call him hypocrite and quack . In his own church he keeps a feat ; Says grace before and after meat ; And calls , without affecting airs , 100 105 110 115 120 125 130 His household twice a - day to pray❜rs . He 94 THE BEASTS CONFESSION.
... call him hypocrite and quack . In his own church he keeps a feat ; Says grace before and after meat ; And calls , without affecting airs , 100 105 110 115 120 125 130 His household twice a - day to pray❜rs . He 94 THE BEASTS CONFESSION.
118. oldal
... meat . 10 ° Hence they that come hither expecting to dine , Are always fobb'd off with sheer wit and fheer wine . ARE On another window . RE the guests of this houfe ftill doom'd to be cheated ? Sure the fates have decreed they by ...
... meat . 10 ° Hence they that come hither expecting to dine , Are always fobb'd off with sheer wit and fheer wine . ARE On another window . RE the guests of this houfe ftill doom'd to be cheated ? Sure the fates have decreed they by ...
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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...