The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 2R. Cadell, 1834 |
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... means of judging of the extent of Swift's real learning ; it cannot perhaps be termed profound , but it was certainly extensive . His writings evince great general acquaintance with history and poetry , both 1 This fact Mr Waryng often ...
... means of judging of the extent of Swift's real learning ; it cannot perhaps be termed profound , but it was certainly extensive . His writings evince great general acquaintance with history and poetry , both 1 This fact Mr Waryng often ...
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... mean that he got it by interest or merit ; or , if it was suspended after , as Dr B. suggests , it might have been restored to him on intercession of friends . But there appears little to countenance the supposition , that he was ...
... mean that he got it by interest or merit ; or , if it was suspended after , as Dr B. suggests , it might have been restored to him on intercession of friends . But there appears little to countenance the supposition , that he was ...
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... mean and low , Not built for grandeur , but for ease , No ivory cornices can show , Nor ceilings rough with gold displays ... means ; 1 The passage reminds us of a similar expression in Dryden's pro- logue to the University of Oxford ...
... mean and low , Not built for grandeur , but for ease , No ivory cornices can show , Nor ceilings rough with gold displays ... means ; 1 The passage reminds us of a similar expression in Dryden's pro- logue to the University of Oxford ...
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... means the case . Fenton was a worthless character , and upon the eve of bankruptcy , when Swift's sister , against his warm remonstrances , chose to unite her fate to his . And although he retained his resentment against her imprudence ...
... means the case . Fenton was a worthless character , and upon the eve of bankruptcy , when Swift's sister , against his warm remonstrances , chose to unite her fate to his . And although he retained his resentment against her imprudence ...
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... mean nothing more than that the fanatics , described under the former denomination , spent their time in combating imaginary spiritual obstacles to their salvation , as the distempered imagination of Don Quixote converted windmills into ...
... mean nothing more than that the fanatics , described under the former denomination , spent their time in combating imaginary spiritual obstacles to their salvation , as the distempered imagination of Don Quixote converted windmills into ...
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Page 453 - When on my sickly couch I lay, Impatient both of night and day, Lamenting in unmanly strains, Call'd every power to ease my pains ; Then Stella ran to my relief, With cheerful face and inward grief ; And, though by Heaven's severe decree She suffers hourly more than me, No cruel master could require, From slaves employ'd for daily hire, What Stella, by her friendship warm'd, With vigour and delight perform'd...
Page 107 - Lord Treasurer, after leaving the Queen, came through the room, beckoning Dr. Swift to follow him : both went off just before prayers.
Page 58 - 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 393 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 205 - 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 297 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Page 225 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening, Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in, ' heyday, gentlemen, (says the doctor) what's the meaning of this visit?
Page 104 - I warned him of, never to appear cold to me, for I would not be treated like a school-boy ; that I had felt too much of that in my life already...
Page 393 - 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.