Jonathan Swift: SelectionsC. Scribner's sons, 1924 - 448 pagina's |
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Pagina xxii
... turn their attention to the ministry , an apparently easy subject for attack . It soon becomes clear that Swift has nothing to expect from the ruling party , and in 1710 he definitely allied himself with the Tories . His reasons were ...
... turn their attention to the ministry , an apparently easy subject for attack . It soon becomes clear that Swift has nothing to expect from the ruling party , and in 1710 he definitely allied himself with the Tories . His reasons were ...
Pagina 8
... turns . Farther , I avow to your Highness , that with these eyes I have beheld the person of William W - tt - n , B.D. , who has written a good sizeable volume against a friend of your governor , ( from whom , alas ! he must therefore ...
... turns . Farther , I avow to your Highness , that with these eyes I have beheld the person of William W - tt - n , B.D. , who has written a good sizeable volume against a friend of your governor , ( from whom , alas ! he must therefore ...
Pagina 12
... turn upon the following fundamentals . They held the universe to be a large suit of clothes , which invests everything : that the earth is invested by the air ; the air is invested by the stars ; and the stars are invested by the primum ...
... turn upon the following fundamentals . They held the universe to be a large suit of clothes , which invests everything : that the earth is invested by the air ; the air is invested by the stars ; and the stars are invested by the primum ...
Pagina 26
... turn indefatigably over night and day , for the improvement of my mind , and the good of my country . These have , with unwearied pains , made many useful searches into the weak sides of the ancients , and given us a compre- hensive ...
... turn indefatigably over night and day , for the improvement of my mind , and the good of my country . These have , with unwearied pains , made many useful searches into the weak sides of the ancients , and given us a compre- hensive ...
Pagina 33
... turn projector and virtuoso , wherein he so well succeeded , that many famous discoveries , projects , and machines , which bear great vogue and practice at present in the world , are owing entirely to Lord PETER'S invention . I will ...
... turn projector and virtuoso , wherein he so well succeeded , that many famous discoveries , projects , and machines , which bear great vogue and practice at present in the world , are owing entirely to Lord PETER'S invention . I will ...
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Pagina 391 - While the first drizzling shower is borne aslope; Such is that sprinkling which some careless quean Flirts on you from her mop, but not so clean: You fly, invoke the gods; then, turning, stop To rail; she singing, still whirls on her mop.
Pagina 436 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities ; and all my love is towards individuals. For instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers; but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one. It is so with physicians. I will not speak of my own trade, soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Pagina 157 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever; therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.
Pagina 369 - There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent among us! sacrificing the poor innocent babes I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.
Pagina 371 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.
Pagina 141 - I hope I shall be forgiven a hard word, if I call this a perfect cavil. I readily own there has been an old custom, time out of mind, for people to assemble in the churches every Sunday, and that shops are still frequently shut, in order, as it is conceived, to preserve the memory of that ancient practice; but how this can prove a hindrance to business or pleasure is hard to imagine. What if the men of pleasure are forced, one day in the week, to game at home instead of the...
Pagina 132 - Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
Pagina 98 - ... which, yielding to the unequal weight, sunk down to the very foundation. Thrice he endeavoured to force his passage, and thrice the centre shook The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was approaching to her final dissolution ; or else, that Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects whom his enemy had slain and devoured.
Pagina 408 - Without regarding private ends, Spent all his credit for his friends ; And only chose the wise and good ; No flatterers ; no allies in blood : But succour'd virtue in distress, And seldom fail'd of good success ; As numbers in their hearts must own, Who, but for him, had been unknown.
Pagina 405 - 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.