The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin |
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Thomas Sheridan. faction raged with the greatest violence ; that he was looked upon as the principal champion of the Tory cause , and therefore was the common butt at which all the Writers on the Whig fide levelled their shafts ; there ...
Thomas Sheridan. faction raged with the greatest violence ; that he was looked upon as the principal champion of the Tory cause , and therefore was the common butt at which all the Writers on the Whig fide levelled their shafts ; there ...
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... looked upon his fon as a blockhead . This stung the young man to the quick ; and we may fee how deep an impreffion it made on him , by the account he gives of it in one of his letters to his fon . It feems to have been the chief object ...
... looked upon his fon as a blockhead . This stung the young man to the quick ; and we may fee how deep an impreffion it made on him , by the account he gives of it in one of his letters to his fon . It feems to have been the chief object ...
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... looked out for fome other way by which he might acquire literary reputation , and he found no field fo fuited to his talents , as that of criticism ; fince , to make a figure there , required neither genius , nor deep learning and ...
... looked out for fome other way by which he might acquire literary reputation , and he found no field fo fuited to his talents , as that of criticism ; fince , to make a figure there , required neither genius , nor deep learning and ...
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... looked upon to be much the richeft of the family , Swift's other relations feemed at that time to think that their aid was not at all necef- fary ; fo that he was obliged to make the best shift he could , with the wretched allowance ...
... looked upon to be much the richeft of the family , Swift's other relations feemed at that time to think that their aid was not at all necef- fary ; fo that he was obliged to make the best shift he could , with the wretched allowance ...
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... looked at him for fome time in filence , with fuch a mixed emotion of astonishment and gratitude in his countenance , as prefented to Swift one of the most striking pictures of the mind expreffed in the face , he had ever feen ; and he ...
... looked at him for fome time in filence , with fuch a mixed emotion of astonishment and gratitude in his countenance , as prefented to Swift one of the most striking pictures of the mind expreffed in the face , he had ever feen ; and he ...
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Page 443 - But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 441 - That, although he hated the Yahoos of this Country, yet he no more blamed them for their odious Qualities, than he did a Gnnayh (a Bird of Prey) for its Cruelty, or a sharp Stone for cutting his Hoof. But when a Creature pretending to Reason could be capable of such Enormities, he dreaded lest the Corruption of that Faculty might be worse than Brutality itself.
Page 448 - No, we" had rather talk with you than drink with you.' ' But, if you had supped with me, as in all reason you ought to have done, you must then have drunk with me.
Page 41 - than I can say ; I never remember any weather that was not too hot, or too cold ; too wet, or too dry ; but, however God Almighty contrives it, at the end of the year 'tis all very well.
Page 288 - From whence that decency of mind, So lovely in the female kind, Where not one careless thought intrudes, Less' modest than the speech of prudes ; Where never blush was call'd in aid, That spurious virtue in a maid, A virtue but at second-hand ; They blush because they understand.
Page 150 - I always loved you just so much the worse for your station ; for, in your public capacity, you have often angered me to the heart, but, as a private man, never once.
Page 169 - I took Parnell this morning, and we walked to see poor Harrison. I had the hundred pounds in my pocket. I told Parnell I was afraid to knock at the door; my mind misgave me. I knocked, and his man in tears told me his master was dead an hour before.
Page 111 - I am altogether a stranger) did, a month or two ago, vindicate me from having any concern in it ? Should not Mr. Steele have first expostulated with me as a friend ? Have I deserved this usage from Mr. Steele, who knows very well that my lord treasurer has kept him in his employment upon my...
Page 256 - Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp was strung, Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts ; With friendship and esteem possest, I ne'er admitted Love a guest.
Page 244 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.