The Works of Jonathan Swift: containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, not hitherto published ; with notes, and a life of the author, by Sir Walter Scott, bart, Volum 2

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Side 282 - of the nation, For poets open table kept, But ne'er considered where they slept. Himself, as rich as fifty Jews, Was easy though they wanted shoes ; And crazy Congreve scarce could spare A shilling to discharge his chair, Till prudence taught him to appeal From Poean's fire to party zeal;
Side 282 - have made a worthy man easy, and that is a good / day's work.* I am proposing to my lord to erect a society or academy for correcting and settling our language, that we may not perpetually be changing as we do. He enters mightily into it, so does the Dean of Carlisle;
Side 33 - came to see me, and we went to Kneller's,* who was not in town. In the way we met the electors for parliamentmen : and the rabble came about our coach, crying a Colt, a Stanhope, &c. We were afraid of a dead cat, or our glasses broken, and so were always of their side,
Side 37 - I told him I was loth to trouble him in so much business as he had, and desired I might have leave to come at his levee; which he immediately refused, and said, That was not a place for friends to come to. It is now but morning, and I have got a foolish
Side 240 - tis often very pretty. Yesterday it was made of a noble hint I gave him long ago for his Tatlers, about an Indian supposed to write his travels into England. I repent he ever had it. I intended to have written a book on that
Side 164 - 7. I was this morning early with Mr. Lewis of the secretary's office, and saw a letter Mr. Harley had sent to him, desiring to be reconciled ; but I was deaf to all entreaties, and have desired Lewis to go to him, and let him know I expect farther satisfaction.
Side 71 - called the Rod of Sid Hamet. And I have written several other things that I hear commended, and nobody suspects me for them ; nor you shall not know till I see you again. What do you mean " That boards near me, that I dine with
Side 161 - Mrs. Beaumont. t Swift threw this observation into rhyme, in the famous verses on his own death : Yet should some neighbour feel a pain, Just in the parts where I complain, How many a message would he send, What hearty prayers that I should mend ; Inquire what regimen I kept, What gave me ease, and how I slept, And more lament when I
Side 29 - It is good to see what a lamentable confession the Whigs all make me of my ill-usage ; but I mind them not. I am already represented to Harley as a discontented person, that was used ill for not being Whig enough ; and I hope for good usage from him. The Tories
Side 408 - the dean, or Tom Leigh. Prior puns very well. Odso, I must go see his excellency, 'tis a noble advancement : but they could do no less, after sending him to France. Lord Strafford is as proud as Hell, and how he will bear one of Prior's mean birth on an equal character with him, I know

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