Life of Jonathan SwiftWells and Lilly, 1829 - 364 pages |
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... circumstances of the most pressing calamity , educated by the cold and careless charity of relations , denied the usual honours attached to academical study , and spending years of dependence upon the inefficient patronage of Sir ...
... circumstances of the most pressing calamity , educated by the cold and careless charity of relations , denied the usual honours attached to academical study , and spending years of dependence upon the inefficient patronage of Sir ...
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... circumstances of the poet's mother . As Mr. Swift states himself to have been conversant about the King's Inns for six or seven years before the date of his petition , it is probable that he came to Ireland upon the death of his father ...
... circumstances of the poet's mother . As Mr. Swift states himself to have been conversant about the King's Inns for six or seven years before the date of his petition , it is probable that he came to Ireland upon the death of his father ...
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... circumstances sunk deep into his haughty temper , even at an early period of life , and that even then commenced that war of his spirit with the world , which only ended when his facul- ties were utterly subdued by disease . Born a ...
... circumstances sunk deep into his haughty temper , even at an early period of life , and that even then commenced that war of his spirit with the world , which only ended when his facul- ties were utterly subdued by disease . Born a ...
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... circumstances are concealed and altered . Notwithstanding the violence of this altercation , the Dean and Archdeacon Whittingham were reconciled by the interference of the Bishop , and became afterwards good friends . * Son to his uncle ...
... circumstances are concealed and altered . Notwithstanding the violence of this altercation , the Dean and Archdeacon Whittingham were reconciled by the interference of the Bishop , and became afterwards good friends . * Son to his uncle ...
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... circumstances . But Swift always cherished his memory , and recorded him as the best of his relations . " He used also to mention an incident which occurred while he was at college , of which Willoughby Swift , his cousin , the son of ...
... circumstances . But Swift always cherished his memory , and recorded him as the best of his relations . " He used also to mention an incident which occurred while he was at college , of which Willoughby Swift , his cousin , the son of ...
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Page 300 - I HAVE been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf and full of pain. I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I can say is, that I am not in torture ; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few ; few and miserable they must be. I am, for those few days, yours entirely, JON. SWIFT. If I do not blunder,...
Page 305 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Page 171 - But what success Vanessa met, Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain ; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; Or to compound the business, whether They temper love and books together ; Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold.
Page 119 - At my first coming, I thought I should have died with discontent, and was horribly melancholy while they were installing me ; but it begins to wear off, and change to dulness.
Page 329 - That he has in his works no metaphor, as has been said, is not true; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice.
Page 238 - ... they had not cohabited in that state, in order to put it out of the power of slander to be busy with her fame after death, she adjured him by their friendship to let her have the satisfaction of dying at least, though she had not lived, his acknowledged wife.
Page 328 - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed, or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar, that it must be considered by itself; what is true of that, is not true of any thing else which he has written.
Page 291 - I remember," says he, in that letter, speaking of Swift, "as I and others were taking with him an evening walk, about a mile out of Dublin, he stopped short; we passed on; but perceiving he did not follow us, I went back, and found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing upward at a noble elm, which in its uppermost branches was much withered and decayed. Pointing at it, he said, 'I shall be like that tree, I shall die at top.
Page 16 - Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
Page 155 - Oh ! that you may have but so much regard for me left that this complaint may touch your soul with pity. I say as little as ever I can ; did you but know what I thought, I am sure it would move you to forgive me ; and believe I cannot help telling you this and live.