The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory, Volumen6C. Bathurst, 1754 |
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... gave the poet occafion to suppose it , B ; need not here be inquired : his principal defign is to expose the faults and follies in both fexes , by which love is degraded , and marriage rendered fubfervient to fordid purposes . 2 Against ...
... gave the poet occafion to suppose it , B ; need not here be inquired : his principal defign is to expose the faults and follies in both fexes , by which love is degraded , and marriage rendered fubfervient to fordid purposes . 2 Against ...
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... Gave hints of who and who's together : Then fell to talking of the weather : Last night was so extremely fine , The ladies walk'd till after nine . Then Then in foft voice , and fpeech abfurd , With 14 CADENUS and VANESSA .
... Gave hints of who and who's together : Then fell to talking of the weather : Last night was so extremely fine , The ladies walk'd till after nine . Then Then in foft voice , and fpeech abfurd , With 14 CADENUS and VANESSA .
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... them right . Away the fair detractors went , And gave by turns their cenfures vent . She's not fo handfome in my eyes : For wit , I wonder where it lies . C She's She's fair and clean , and that's the most : CADENUS and VANESSA . 17.
... them right . Away the fair detractors went , And gave by turns their cenfures vent . She's not fo handfome in my eyes : For wit , I wonder where it lies . C She's She's fair and clean , and that's the most : CADENUS and VANESSA . 17.
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... gave her judgment wrong . But now a fudden change was wrought ; She minds no longer what he taught . Cadenus was amaz'd to find Such marks of a diftracted mind : For , though fhe feem'd to liften more To all he spoke , than e'er before ...
... gave her judgment wrong . But now a fudden change was wrought ; She minds no longer what he taught . Cadenus was amaz'd to find Such marks of a diftracted mind : For , though fhe feem'd to liften more To all he spoke , than e'er before ...
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... gave me equal arms ; Your leffons found the weakest part , Aim'd at the head , but reach'd the heart . * Vanella , confcious that her paffion was virtuous , had no motive to conceal it : for " Virtue knows nothing that it dare not own ...
... gave me equal arms ; Your leffons found the weakest part , Aim'd at the head , but reach'd the heart . * Vanella , confcious that her paffion was virtuous , had no motive to conceal it : for " Virtue knows nothing that it dare not own ...
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Página 146 - Tis but the funeral of the former year. Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear...
Página 263 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE, Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY : His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Página 30 - Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Página 43 - A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again.
Página 196 - To raise the lumber from the earth. But view him in another scene, When all his drink is Hippocrene, His money...
Página 300 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Página 45 - Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within...
Página 301 - tis a shocking sight, And he's engaged to-morrow night; My Lady Club will take it ill, If he should fail her at quadrille. He loved the Dean— (I lead a heart,) But dearest friends, they say, must part. His time was come: he ran his race; We hope he's in a better place.
Página 146 - 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 299 - He'll treat me as he does my betters, Publish my will, my life, my letters ; Revive the libels born to die : Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament.