| Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 514 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, perfons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this fign, that the dunces are all in confederacy againft him. Men who poflcfs all the advantages of life,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign» that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life,... | |
| Thomas Murray - 1822 - 402 páginas
...should lose the honour of it. This is exactly my situation !" The other is from Dean Swift : " Wh|na true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign— that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Nor did these works, voluminous as they... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...brightness on their memory than you received from them. Dry den — To the Duke of Ormond. DCCCCXXX. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Swift. DCCCCXXXI. Scandal. I was an infidel... | |
| 1829 - 126 páginas
...fire. When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in confederacy against him. A good word is as soon said as a bad one. If... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 páginas
...more brightness on their memory than you received from them. Dryden—To the Duke of Ormend. DCCCCXXX. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.—Swift. DCCCCXXXI. Scandal. I was an infidel... | |
| 412 páginas
...abominable that a man should lose the honour of it. This is exactly my situation !" The other is from Dean Swift : — " When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." But amid all his folly and distress he... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons and events we read, and we little regard the authors. od boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter. I have reckone sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 páginas
...Steer the bark of thy mind from the syren isle of reverie. Tapper's Proverbial Philosophy. Swift says: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may...know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him." Lord Erskine mentions a fine instance of native eloquence in an Indian... | |
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