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... seen too much of those qualities in you to be any thing less than Your , etc. LETTER II . Dec. 24 , 1712 . T has been my good fortune within this month past , IT to hear more things that have pleafed me than ( [ think ) almoft in all my ...
... seen too much of those qualities in you to be any thing less than Your , etc. LETTER II . Dec. 24 , 1712 . T has been my good fortune within this month past , IT to hear more things that have pleafed me than ( [ think ) almoft in all my ...
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... seen any ill - nature , and Inftead of that they want judgment , propriety of expreffion , requires he should have faid- there where they want judg ment . had been bred among lambs and turtle - doves , FROM MR . GAY . ! 13 Complaints of ...
... seen any ill - nature , and Inftead of that they want judgment , propriety of expreffion , requires he should have faid- there where they want judg ment . had been bred among lambs and turtle - doves , FROM MR . GAY . ! 13 Complaints of ...
Pagina 27
... seen of few of you this winter . I am grown too faint to do any good , or to give any pleasure . I not only , as Dryden finely fays , feel my notes decay as a poet , but feel my spirits flag as a companion , and shall return again to ...
... seen of few of you this winter . I am grown too faint to do any good , or to give any pleasure . I not only , as Dryden finely fays , feel my notes decay as a poet , but feel my spirits flag as a companion , and shall return again to ...
Pagina 33
... seen two small islands call'd the Steep Holmes and Flat Holmes , and on t'other fide we could plainly distinguish the divifions of fields on the Welch coaft . All this journey . I perform'd on horseback , and am very much disappointed ...
... seen two small islands call'd the Steep Holmes and Flat Holmes , and on t'other fide we could plainly distinguish the divifions of fields on the Welch coaft . All this journey . I perform'd on horseback , and am very much disappointed ...
Pagina 34
... seen no verses on these fublime occafions ; fo that I have no emulation : Let the patrons enjoy the authors , and the authors their patrons , for I know myfelf unworthy . I am , etc. I LETTER XXV . Mr. CLELAND to Mr. GAYt . Decemb . 16 ...
... seen no verses on these fublime occafions ; fo that I have no emulation : Let the patrons enjoy the authors , and the authors their patrons , for I know myfelf unworthy . I am , etc. I LETTER XXV . Mr. CLELAND to Mr. GAYt . Decemb . 16 ...
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Pagina 148 - Lords and Commons, nemine contradicente; and the whole town, men, women, and children, are quite full of it. Perhaps I may all this time be talking to you of a book you have never seen, and which...
Pagina 116 - I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation, until that ancient law were restored among us. For who sees not that while such assemblies are permitted to have a longer duration, there grows up a commerce of corruption between the ministry and the deputies, wherein they both find their accounts, to the manifest danger of liberty — which traffic would never answer the design nor expense, if Parliaments met once a year.
Pagina 269 - Dr. Delany is the only gentleman I know who keeps one certain day in the week to entertain seven or eight friends at dinner and to pass the evening, where there is nothing of excess, either in eating or drinking.
Pagina 175 - ... is not founded upon weak appearances. Upon his return from the Bath, all peccant humours, he finds, are...
Pagina 4 - I am, when every day the performances of others appear more beautiful and excellent, and my own more despicable.
Pagina 128 - Augustus : but envy, and party, and pride have hindered it among us. I do not include the subalterns, of which you are seldom without a large tribe.
Pagina 189 - As to this country,* there have been three terrible years dearth of corn, and every place strewed with beggars; but dearths are common in better climates, and our evils here lie much deeper. Imagine a nation the two thirds of whose revenues are spent out of it, and who are not permitted to trade with the other third...
Pagina 175 - As to the return of his health and vigour, were you here, you might inquire of his hay-makers; but as to his temperance I can answer that (for one whole day) we have had nothing for dinner but mutton-broth, beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl.
Pagina 147 - Gulliver, which hath been the conversation of the whole town ever since : the whole impression sold in a week ; and nothing is more diverting than to hear the different opinions people give of it, though all agree in liking it extremely. It is generally said that you are the author : but I am told, the bookseller declares, he knows not from what hand it came.
Pagina 302 - THOUGH you were never to write to me, yet what you desired in your last, that I would write often to you, would be a very easy task ; for every day I talk with you, and of you, in my heart ; and I need only set down what that is thinking of.