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Pagina 3
... given reason for complaint , is said to have made him Deputy Master of the Rolls in Ireland ; which , ac- cording to his kinsman's account , was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore resolved to enter the ...
... given reason for complaint , is said to have made him Deputy Master of the Rolls in Ireland ; which , ac- cording to his kinsman's account , was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore resolved to enter the ...
Pagina 9
... given to one affords all the rest reason for complaint . " When I give away a place , " said Louis XIV . , " I make an hundred discontented , and one ungrateful . " Much has been said of the equality and independence which he preserved ...
... given to one affords all the rest reason for complaint . " When I give away a place , " said Louis XIV . , " I make an hundred discontented , and one ungrateful . " Much has been said of the equality and independence which he preserved ...
Pagina 10
... implacability of triumphant Whiggism , and shelter himself in unenvied obscurity . The accounts of his reception in Ireland , given by Lord Orrery and Dr. Delany , are so different , that the 10 LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS .
... implacability of triumphant Whiggism , and shelter himself in unenvied obscurity . The accounts of his reception in Ireland , given by Lord Orrery and Dr. Delany , are so different , that the 10 LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS .
Pagina 17
... given to the ac- countant ; but he required that the day of promised payment should be exactly kept . A severe and punctilious temper is ill qualified for transactions with the poor ; the day was often broken , and the loan was not ...
... given to the ac- countant ; but he required that the day of promised payment should be exactly kept . A severe and punctilious temper is ill qualified for transactions with the poor ; the day was often broken , and the loan was not ...
Pagina 19
... given very different specimens both of sen- timents and expression . His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces . It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind , a copiousness of images , and vivacity of diction , such ...
... given very different specimens both of sen- timents and expression . His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces . It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind , a copiousness of images , and vivacity of diction , such ...
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Pagina 182 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Pagina 148 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust
Pagina 248 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Pagina 225 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Pagina 22 - Whatever he did, he seemed willing to do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule ; he, therefore, who indulges peculiar habits, is worse than others, if he be not better.
Pagina 219 - The method of Pope, as may be collected from his translation, was to write his first thoughts in his first words, and gradually to amplify, decorate, rectify, and refine them. With such faculties and such dispositions he excelled every other writer in poetical prudence : he wrote in such a. manner as might expose him to few hazards.
Pagina 249 - Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light;" but others, and among them Dr.
Pagina 215 - ... a letter is addressed to a single mind, of which the prejudices and partialities are known, and must therefore please, if not by favouring them, by forbearing to oppose them.
Pagina 93 - Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, "Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading 'Don Quixote
Pagina 22 - It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his letters^ an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another.