The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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... falls , and Beauty dies . To fee fome radiant nymph appear In all her glitt'ring birthday - gear , You think fome goddess from the sky Defcended , ready cut and dry : But ere you fell yourself to laughter , Confider well what may come ...
... falls , and Beauty dies . To fee fome radiant nymph appear In all her glitt'ring birthday - gear , You think fome goddess from the sky Defcended , ready cut and dry : But ere you fell yourself to laughter , Confider well what may come ...
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... fall ; But who can reach the worst of all ? For tho ' in nature depth and height Are equally held infinite , 390 In poetry the height we know ; " Tis only infinite below . For inftance : When you rafhly think , No rhymer can like ...
... fall ; But who can reach the worst of all ? For tho ' in nature depth and height Are equally held infinite , 390 In poetry the height we know ; " Tis only infinite below . For inftance : When you rafhly think , No rhymer can like ...
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... Fall a working like a mole , Raife the dirt about your hole . COME affift me , mufe obedient , Let us try fome new expedient ; Shift the scene for half an hour , Time and place are in thy pow'r . Thither , gentle mufe , condu & t me ; I ...
... Fall a working like a mole , Raife the dirt about your hole . COME affift me , mufe obedient , Let us try fome new expedient ; Shift the scene for half an hour , Time and place are in thy pow'r . Thither , gentle mufe , condu & t me ; I ...
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... fall thick , and soft , and flow ; While brifk coquets || , like rattling hail , Our ears on ev'ry fide affail . * Motherly women . 65 70 Not grace before and after meat , nor their graces the ducheffes ; but the graces which attended ...
... fall thick , and soft , and flow ; While brifk coquets || , like rattling hail , Our ears on ev'ry fide affail . * Motherly women . 65 70 Not grace before and after meat , nor their graces the ducheffes ; but the graces which attended ...
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... fall ; Off fly the vizors and discover all . How plain I fee through the deceit ! How shallow ! and how gross the cheat ! Look where the pully's ty'd above ! Great God ! ( faid I , ) what have I feen ! On what poor engines move 95 100 ...
... fall ; Off fly the vizors and discover all . How plain I fee through the deceit ! How shallow ! and how gross the cheat ! Look where the pully's ty'd above ! Great God ! ( faid I , ) what have I feen ! On what poor engines move 95 100 ...
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THE WORKS OF THE Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volum 7 Jonathan Swift Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1760 |
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Side 203 - ... 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.
Side 169 - Simplicity, without which no human Performance can arrive to any great Perfection, is no where more eminently useful than in this.
Side 36 - 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...
Side 85 - 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...
Side 40 - 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...
Side 31 - 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...
Side 197 - ... 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.
Side 178 - 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.
Side 375 - 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...
Side 204 - ... 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...