The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised, in Twelve Volumes. Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volumen17C. Bathurst, T. Osborne, W. Bowyer, J. Hinton, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Davis and C. Reymers, and J. Dodsley., 1765 |
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Página 68 - Grace! impossible! what, dead! Of old age, too, and in his bed! And could that Mighty Warrior fall? And so inglorious, after all! Well...
Página 35 - That gives surprise, and this delight. Humour is odd, grotesque, and wild, Only by affectation spoil'd : 'Tis never by invention got, Men have it when they know it not.
Página 33 - When, among fcholars, can we find So foft, and yet fo firm a mind ? All accidents of life confpire To raife up Stella's virtue higher ; Or elfe, to introduce the reft Which had been latent in her breaft. Her...
Página 57 - I. LEST it may more quarrels breed, I will never hear you read. II. By disputing, I will never, To convince you once endeavour. III. When a paradox you stick to, I will never contradict you. IV. When I talk and you are heedless, I will show no anger needless. V. When your speeches are absurd, I will ne'er object a word. , VI. When you furious argue wrong, I will grieve...
Página 57 - When your speeches are absurd, I will ne'er object a word. VI. When you, furious, argue wrong, I will grieve and hold my tongue. VII. Not a jest or humorous story Will I ever tell before ye : To be chidden for explaining,' When you quite mistake the meaning.
Página 110 - Antiochus's court. Beau Fielding, at fifty years old, when, in a quarrel upon the stage, he was run into his breast, which he opened and...
Página 69 - Nor widow's sighs, nor orphan's tears, Wont at such times each heart to pierce, Attend the progress of his hearse. But what of that ? his friends may say, He had those honours in his day. True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep before he died.
Página 74 - ... expir'd, Had he not wrote what all admir'd ; What morfels had their malice wanted, But that he built, and plann'd, and planted ! How had his fenfe and learning griev'd them, But that his charity reliev'd them ! " At higheft Worth dull Malice reaches, " As flugs pollute the faireft peaches : " Envy " Envy defames, as harpies vile " Devour the food they firft defile.
Página 69 - Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings; Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke; From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
Página 5 - I'll gently steal you from your toils away, Where balmy winds with scents ambrosial play ; Where on the banks, as crystal rivers flow, They teach immortal amaranths to grow ; Then from the mild indulgence of the scene...