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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... fet 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.
... fet 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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... wonder by his merit wrought ! ' Tis merit must with her prevail : He never knew her judgment fail . She noted all she ever read , And had a moft difcerning head . ' Tis an old maxim in the schools , That vanity's the food of fools : Yet ...
... wonder by his merit wrought ! ' Tis merit must with her prevail : He never knew her judgment fail . She noted all she ever read , And had a moft difcerning head . ' Tis an old maxim in the schools , That vanity's the food of fools : Yet ...
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... wonder more , The number made the motion flow'r . The flyer , though't had leaden feet , Turn'd round fo quick , you fcarce could fee't ; But , flacken'd by fome fecret pow'r , Now hardly moves an inch an hour . The jack and chimney ...
... wonder more , The number made the motion flow'r . The flyer , though't had leaden feet , Turn'd round fo quick , you fcarce could fee't ; But , flacken'd by fome fecret pow'r , Now hardly moves an inch an hour . The jack and chimney ...
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... refers . Dic Ad cœnam veniat . Non fane credere Mæna ; Mirari fecum tacitus . 50 * Earl of Wharton , father to the duke of Wharton who died in France . 55 Swift seem'd to wonder what he meant , Nor Swift 50 AN ADDRESS TO THE.
... refers . Dic Ad cœnam veniat . Non fane credere Mæna ; Mirari fecum tacitus . 50 * Earl of Wharton , father to the duke of Wharton who died in France . 55 Swift seem'd to wonder what he meant , Nor Swift 50 AN ADDRESS TO THE.
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... wonder what he meant , Nor wou'd believe my lord had fent ; So never offer'd once to ftir ; But coldly faid , your fervant , fir . Does he refuse me ? Harley cry'd : He does , with infolence and pride . Some few days after Harley fpies ...
... wonder what he meant , Nor wou'd believe my lord had fent ; So never offer'd once to ftir ; But coldly faid , your fervant , fir . Does he refuse me ? Harley cry'd : He does , with infolence and pride . Some few days after Harley fpies ...
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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.