The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and SheridanA. Constable, 1814 |
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... spirits , who are born with a vivacité de pesanteur , or , ( as an English author calls it ) an " alacrity of sinking ; * " and who by strength of nature alone can excel . All I mean , is , to evince the necessity of rules to these ...
... spirits , who are born with a vivacité de pesanteur , or , ( as an English author calls it ) an " alacrity of sinking ; * " and who by strength of nature alone can excel . All I mean , is , to evince the necessity of rules to these ...
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... spirits in this our island . CHAP . VII . OF THE PROFUND , WHEN IT CONSISTS IN THE THOUGHT . WE have already laid down the principles , upon which our author is to proceed , and the manner of forming his thought by familiarizing his ...
... spirits in this our island . CHAP . VII . OF THE PROFUND , WHEN IT CONSISTS IN THE THOUGHT . WE have already laid down the principles , upon which our author is to proceed , and the manner of forming his thought by familiarizing his ...
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... spirit , which we admire and stare at . For instance , in that ingenious piece on a lady's drinking the Bath waters : She drinks ! she drinks ! behold the matchless dame ! To her ' tis water , but to us ' tis flame ! Thus fire is water ...
... spirit , which we admire and stare at . For instance , in that ingenious piece on a lady's drinking the Bath waters : She drinks ! she drinks ! behold the matchless dame ! To her ' tis water , but to us ' tis flame ! Thus fire is water ...
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... spirit , and limit the descriptive faculty , but also les- sen the book ; which is frequently the worst conse- quence of all to our author . Job says in short , he washed his feet in butter ; a circumstance some poets would have ...
... spirit , and limit the descriptive faculty , but also les- sen the book ; which is frequently the worst conse- quence of all to our author . Job says in short , he washed his feet in butter ; a circumstance some poets would have ...
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... spirit of the bathos to one choice word , that ends the line . And his scorch'd ribs the hot contagion fry'd , + And in that description of a world in ruins : Should the whole frame of nature round him break , He , unconcerned , would ...
... spirit of the bathos to one choice word , that ends the line . And his scorch'd ribs the hot contagion fry'd , + And in that description of a world in ruins : Should the whole frame of nature round him break , He , unconcerned , would ...
Términos y frases comunes
Addison Æsop Ambrose Philips ancient appear barrier treaty bathos beasts Blackmore bookseller called Cato catoptrical character church court critics Curll Dennis Doctor Double Falsehood Dr Arbuthnot Dr WARTON Duke Dunciad EDMUND CURLL ev'ry excellent eyes fear Fourth Doctor gentleman give hand hath head hear Homer honour humour Jews John Dennis king ladies learned letter Lintot live Lord maids mankind manner master Miscellanies Mohocks nature neighbours never observed occasion person piece poem poet poetry poor Pope pray puns pyed horses Quadrille Queen racter reader reason remarkable ridicule Rule satire Scriblerus Scriblerus Club Second Doctor sense specta spirit sweet Molly Swift thee thing Third Doctor thou thought tion Tom D'Urfey true turn verse WARTON Whiston whole wife women wonder words writ write
Pasajes populares
Página 331 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 65 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Página 145 - Of these am I, who thy protection claim, A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name. Late, as I rang'd the crystal wilds of air, In the clear mirror of thy ruling star I saw, alas! some dread...
Página 330 - Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 145 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Página 147 - Warn'd by the sylph, oh pious maid, beware ! This to disclose is all thy guardian can ; Beware of all, but most beware of man ! He said ; when Shock, who thought she slept too long, Leap'd up, and wak'd his mistress with his tongue.
Página 153 - Haste, then, ye spirits! to your charge repair: The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite lock; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Página 172 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Página 335 - See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end; Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot; Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot!
Página 148 - What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.