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Pagina iii
Reginald Brimley Johnson. CENTURY LETTERS Reginald EDITED BY R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON SWIFT ADDISON STEELE With an Introduction by STANLEY LANE - POOLE LONDON A. D. INNES & C ° BEDFORD ST 2 A کے VIVID COLLEGE FEB 15 1898 LIBRARY Mary 1897 ...
Reginald Brimley Johnson. CENTURY LETTERS Reginald EDITED BY R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON SWIFT ADDISON STEELE With an Introduction by STANLEY LANE - POOLE LONDON A. D. INNES & C ° BEDFORD ST 2 A کے VIVID COLLEGE FEB 15 1898 LIBRARY Mary 1897 ...
Pagina vi
... in chronological order ; the rule of birth date being in some cases slightly modified for the union of friends or writers of one class . R. B. J. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS LETTERS FROM SWIFT JOURNAL TO STELLA ... [ vi EDITOR'S PREFACE.
... in chronological order ; the rule of birth date being in some cases slightly modified for the union of friends or writers of one class . R. B. J. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS LETTERS FROM SWIFT JOURNAL TO STELLA ... [ vi EDITOR'S PREFACE.
Pagina vii
Reginald Brimley Johnson. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS LETTERS FROM SWIFT JOURNAL TO STELLA ... [ ESTHER JOHNSON ] TO VANESSA ... ... ... PAGE ix I 32 ... 4I [ ESTHER VANHOMRIGH ] TO VARINA ... ... ... ... ... [ JANE , SISTER TO MR . WARYNG , ...
Reginald Brimley Johnson. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS LETTERS FROM SWIFT JOURNAL TO STELLA ... [ ESTHER JOHNSON ] TO VANESSA ... ... ... PAGE ix I 32 ... 4I [ ESTHER VANHOMRIGH ] TO VARINA ... ... ... ... ... [ JANE , SISTER TO MR . WARYNG , ...
Pagina viii
Reginald Brimley Johnson. FROM GAY ... LETTERS TO SWIFT ... FROM DR . ARBUTHNOT ... FROM LORD BOLINGBROKE ... LETTERS FROM ADDISON TO SWIFT ... TO THE EARL OF WARWICK ... TO CHARLES MONTAGU TO CONGREVE ... TO STANYAN ... ... ... ... TO ...
Reginald Brimley Johnson. FROM GAY ... LETTERS TO SWIFT ... FROM DR . ARBUTHNOT ... FROM LORD BOLINGBROKE ... LETTERS FROM ADDISON TO SWIFT ... TO THE EARL OF WARWICK ... TO CHARLES MONTAGU TO CONGREVE ... TO STANYAN ... ... ... ... TO ...
Pagina ix
... Swift . Probably no prominent character has been more cruelly misjudged . Popular opinion has been guided by the superficial sketches of Macaulay , Thackeray , and Taine , and has not stopped to consider that a brilliant presentment is ...
... Swift . Probably no prominent character has been more cruelly misjudged . Popular opinion has been guided by the superficial sketches of Macaulay , Thackeray , and Taine , and has not stopped to consider that a brilliant presentment is ...
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Pagina xii - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Pagina 54 - I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is to vex the world rather than divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever seen, without reading.
Pagina 153 - The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday,— " the Queen died on Sunday! What a world is " this, and how does Fortune banter us !" says Bolingbroke.* * Letter to Swift, Aug.
Pagina 149 - ... have hecatombs of roasted oxen sacrificed to him. Since he became so conspicuous, Will Pulteney hangs his head to see himself so much outdone in the career of glory. I hope he will get a good deal of money by printing his play, but, I really believe, he would get more by showing his person ; and I can assure you, this is the very identical John Gay, whom you formerly knew, and lodged with in Whitehall two years ago.
Pagina 89 - I told the mother immediately, and spoke with all the advantages you deserve. But, the objection of your fortune being removed, I declare I have no other; nor shall any consideration of my own misfortune of losing so good a friend and companion as her, prevail on me, against her interest and settlement in the world, since it is held so necessary and convenient a thing for ladies to marry; and that time takes off from the lustre of virgins in all other eyes but mine.
Pagina 35 - ... and more I assure you. Come at what time you please, you can never fail of being very well received. To which Swift replied, with equally light-hearted banter, 7/ you write as you do, I shall come the seldomer, on purpose to be pleased with your letters, which I never look into without wondering how a Brat, who cannot read, can possibly write so well.
Pagina 55 - I have done with them. I have got materials towards a treatise, proving the falsity of that definition animal rationale, and to show it should be only rationis capax.
Pagina 186 - So, close in poplar shades, (her children gone) The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some prying churl had found, and thence, By stealth, convey'd th
Pagina xxi - Had spoil'd his fashionable airs: He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. His conduct might have made him styl'd A father, and the nymph his child.
Pagina 205 - Saturday night (Aug. 30, 1707.) "DEAR, LOVELY, MRS. SCURLOCK, — "I have been in very good company, where your health, under the character of the woman I loved best, has been often drunk; so that I may say that I am dead drunk for your sake, which is more than I die for you. "RICH. STEELE.