The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volumen8A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... Lord Bolingbroke's life in the country . More about the Dunciad . XXXIV . From Dr Swift . Advice how to publish the Dunciad . Concerning Lord B. and Mr Gay XXXV . From Bath . The pleasure of being abused in compa- ny with worthy men ...
... Lord Bolingbroke's life in the country . More about the Dunciad . XXXIV . From Dr Swift . Advice how to publish the Dunciad . Concerning Lord B. and Mr Gay XXXV . From Bath . The pleasure of being abused in compa- ny with worthy men ...
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... Lord Bolingbroke concerning his metaphyfical works 157 159 161 162 164 167 LXXIII . From Dr Swift . The answer . Of his own amufe- ments , the effay on man , and Lord B.'s writings LXXIV . Of the pleafures of his converfation . Of Dr Ar ...
... Lord Bolingbroke concerning his metaphyfical works 157 159 161 162 164 167 LXXIII . From Dr Swift . The answer . Of his own amufe- ments , the effay on man , and Lord B.'s writings LXXIV . Of the pleafures of his converfation . Of Dr Ar ...
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... Lord Carteret , July 3. 1725 231 CXI . To Dr Sheridan , Sept. 11. 1725 233 CXII . To the fame , Sept. 19. 1725 235 CXIII . To the fame , Sept. 25. 1725 237 CXIV . An answer to Lord Palmerston's civil polite letter , Jan. 31. 1725-6 238 ...
... Lord Carteret , July 3. 1725 231 CXI . To Dr Sheridan , Sept. 11. 1725 233 CXII . To the fame , Sept. 19. 1725 235 CXIII . To the fame , Sept. 25. 1725 237 CXIV . An answer to Lord Palmerston's civil polite letter , Jan. 31. 1725-6 238 ...
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... Lord Mayor's feast in Dublin , and was attacked and teafed by an opulent , boisterous , half - intoxicated ' fquire , who hap- pened to fit next him : he bore the awkward raillery for fome time , and then on a fudden called out in a ...
... Lord Mayor's feast in Dublin , and was attacked and teafed by an opulent , boisterous , half - intoxicated ' fquire , who hap- pened to fit next him : he bore the awkward raillery for fome time , and then on a fudden called out in a ...
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... Lord Bacon is the firft author who has attempted any style that can be relishable to the prefent age ; for I must own , that I think Swift , and his cotemporaries , have brought our language to the ut- moft degree of perfection ...
... Lord Bacon is the firft author who has attempted any style that can be relishable to the prefent age ; for I must own , that I think Swift , and his cotemporaries , have brought our language to the ut- moft degree of perfection ...
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Página 92 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Página 44 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Página 122 - I dislike nothing in your letter but an affected apology for bad writing, bad spelling, and a bad pen; which you pretend Mr Gay found fault with; Wherein you affront Mr Gay, you affront me, and you affront yourself.
Página 179 - I see things more in the whole, more consistent, and more clearly deduced from, and related to each other. But what I gain on the side of philosophy, I lose on the side of poetry : the flowers are gone, when the fruits begin to ripen, and the fruits perhaps will never ripen perfectly.
Página 60 - Motte * received the copy (he tells me) he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney-coach : by computing the time, I found it was after you left England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment.
Página 15 - ... to war and gods. I tell you all the faults I know, only in one or two places you are a little obscure; but I expected you to be so in one or two and twenty.
Página 33 - I often threatened myself with the journey, and am every summer practising to ride and get health to bear it : the only inconvenience is, that I grow old in the experiment. Although I care not to talk to you as a divine, yet I hope you have not been author of your colic : do you drink bad wine, or keep bad company? Are you not as many years older as I ? It will not be always et tibi quos mihi dempserit apponet annos.
Página 31 - I dare not venture to publish them : For however orthodox they may be while I am now writing, they may become criminal enough to bring me into trouble before midsummer.
Página 155 - But even this trick shall not provoke me to print the true one, which indeed is not proper to be seen till I can be seen no more...
Página 194 - Patron, and then descended to be my Friend. It is a great favour of Heaven, that your health grows better by the addition of years. I have...