The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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... reason than a medicine would be rejected for its ill tafte . By attending to the marriage of Strephon and Chloe , the reader is neceffarily led to confider the effect of that grofs fa- miliarity in which it is to be feared many married ...
... reason than a medicine would be rejected for its ill tafte . By attending to the marriage of Strephon and Chloe , the reader is neceffarily led to confider the effect of that grofs fa- miliarity in which it is to be feared many married ...
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... reason ; That Strephon chofe no proper season . 160 SAY , fair - ones , muft I make a paufe , Or freely tell the fecret caufe ? TWELVE cups of tea ( with grief I speak ) Had now constrain'd the nymph to leak . This point muft needs be ...
... reason ; That Strephon chofe no proper season . 160 SAY , fair - ones , muft I make a paufe , Or freely tell the fecret caufe ? TWELVE cups of tea ( with grief I speak ) Had now constrain'd the nymph to leak . This point muft needs be ...
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... reason to defend the land ; 10 Then shall we view these sheets with glad surprise , 15 Infpir'd with thought , and speaking to our eyes : Each vacant space shall then , enrich'd , difpenfe True force of eloquence , and nervous sense ...
... reason to defend the land ; 10 Then shall we view these sheets with glad surprise , 15 Infpir'd with thought , and speaking to our eyes : Each vacant space shall then , enrich'd , difpenfe True force of eloquence , and nervous sense ...
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... reason can there be affign'd For this perverfeness in the mind ? Brutes find out where their talents lie : A bear will not attempt to fly ; A founder'd harfe will oft debate Before he tries a five - barr'd gate ; A dog by instinct turns ...
... reason can there be affign'd For this perverfeness in the mind ? Brutes find out where their talents lie : A bear will not attempt to fly ; A founder'd harfe will oft debate Before he tries a five - barr'd gate ; A dog by instinct turns ...
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... reason is weigh'd down by popular air , Who by that vainly talks of baffling death ; And hopes to lengthen life by a transfufion of breath , Which yet whoe'er examines right , will find To be an art as vain as bottling up of wind ...
... reason is weigh'd down by popular air , Who by that vainly talks of baffling death ; And hopes to lengthen life by a transfufion of breath , Which yet whoe'er examines right , will find To be an art as vain as bottling up of wind ...
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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...