Swiftiana ...Charles Henry Wilson R. Phillips, 1804 |
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... occasion : " Let me thy properties explain : A rotten cabin dropping rain ; Chimnies with scorn rejecting smoke ; Stools , tables , chairs , and bedsteads broke . Here elements have lost their uses , Air ripens not , nor earth produces ...
... occasion : " Let me thy properties explain : A rotten cabin dropping rain ; Chimnies with scorn rejecting smoke ; Stools , tables , chairs , and bedsteads broke . Here elements have lost their uses , Air ripens not , nor earth produces ...
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... occasion , on the Vice Chamberlain , who was sent to desire their Graces ' ab- sence from court , scrupling to deliver her message by word of mouth , is so remark- able and curious as to be well worthy of pre- servation . It is as ...
... occasion , on the Vice Chamberlain , who was sent to desire their Graces ' ab- sence from court , scrupling to deliver her message by word of mouth , is so remark- able and curious as to be well worthy of pre- servation . It is as ...
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... occasion of writing the poem wherein these lines are found , he replied , that he had been three times near hanging ; " for , " says he , " the people thought I could bring the Pretender in my hand , and place him on the throne ...
... occasion of writing the poem wherein these lines are found , he replied , that he had been three times near hanging ; " for , " says he , " the people thought I could bring the Pretender in my hand , and place him on the throne ...
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... occasion of this secession , that the following piece of humour was written by some wicked Whig . It was just enough , that Swift , who had made every opponent feel the lash of his satire , and even killed one of the objects of his ...
... occasion of this secession , that the following piece of humour was written by some wicked Whig . It was just enough , that Swift , who had made every opponent feel the lash of his satire , and even killed one of the objects of his ...
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Charles Henry Wilson. be served the same trick in his turn . No occasion could be happier . The Whigs were intoxicated with the prospect of power , and the Tories proportionably depressed . The anonymous author has assumed the style of ...
Charles Henry Wilson. be served the same trick in his turn . No occasion could be happier . The Whigs were intoxicated with the prospect of power , and the Tories proportionably depressed . The anonymous author has assumed the style of ...
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Addison afterwards anecdotes answer BAUCIS AND PHILEMON Bishop called Cappagh character Chief Justice church contempt court Creichton Dean Swift Dean's deanery dine dinner Doctor Dublin Duke Earl edition Edmund Curll England entitled Faulknor favour friends gentleman give grace heard honour Houyhnhnms humour imitation Ireland Irish Isaac Bickerstaffe Jonathan Smedley King lady late letter LODGE London Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chesterfield Lord Lieutenant Lord Oxford Lord Somers Lord Treasurer Lordship manner MARBLE HILL memoirs ministry never observed occasion pamphlet Partridge party Patrick's person piece poem political Pope possession pray printed published Queen remarks replied ridicule satire says sent servants Sheridan shew Sir Robert soon Supped Swift wrote Tale Tatlers tell thing thought tion told took Tory tract Varina verses virtue volumes Whigs Whiteway words write written
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Página 46 - As to parliaments, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made them annual, and 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...
Página 212 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Página 46 - I ever abominated that scheme of politics (now about thirty years old) of setting up a monied interest in opposition to the landed. For I conceived, there could not be a truer maxim in our government than this, That the possessors of the soil are the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom.
Página 182 - But if you had supped with me, as in all reason you ought to have done, you must then have drank with me.
Página 182 - A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings— tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket ?' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Página 45 - As to what is called a revolution principle, my opinion was this; that whenever those evils which usually attend and follow a violent change of government, were not in probability so pernicious as the grievance we suffer under a present power, then the public good will justify such a revolution.
Página 88 - I should not choose to be often seen in his company. But I know your affection for wherewith proceeds from your partiality to Dean Swift, whom I can often laugh with, whose style I can even approve, but surely can never admire. It has no harmony, no eloquence, no ornament, and not much correctness, whatever the English may imagine. Were not their literature still in a somewhat barbarous state, that author's place would not be so high among their classics.
Página 90 - And if, for an excuse, they pretend they will send for his body, let them know it is mine; and rather than send it, I will take up the bones, and make of it a skeleton, and put it in my register office, to be a memorial of their baseness to all posterity.
Página 50 - I'll drink it myself. Why, take you, you are wiser than a paltry curate whom I asked to dine with me a few days ago ; for upon my making the same speech to him, he said, he did not understand such usage, and so walked off without his dinner. By the same token, I told the gentleman who recommended him to me, that the fellow was a blockhead, and I had done with him."— SHERIDAN'S Life of Swift.
Página 45 - I had likewise in those days a mortal antipathy against standing armies in times of peace. Because I always took standing armies to be only servants hired by the master of the family for keeping his own children in slavery...