The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volumen8A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... myself under no fmall difficulty in difcuffing Swift's letters . General criticifms will be attended with obfcurity ; and it would be tedious to confider them in their exact order . I fhall en- deavour therefore to take a review only of ...
... myself under no fmall difficulty in difcuffing Swift's letters . General criticifms will be attended with obfcurity ; and it would be tedious to confider them in their exact order . I fhall en- deavour therefore to take a review only of ...
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... myself it was partly through my own ! But " this , I fear , will never be the cafe ; and I think it more probable , " his attraction will draw me on the other fide , which , I proteft , " nothing less than a probability of dying at fea ...
... myself it was partly through my own ! But " this , I fear , will never be the cafe ; and I think it more probable , " his attraction will draw me on the other fide , which , I proteft , " nothing less than a probability of dying at fea ...
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... myself so far outdone by the Earl of Oxford in my own trade as a scholar , and too good a courtier not to discover his contempt of those who would be men of importance out of their sphere . Befides , to say the truth , although I have ...
... myself so far outdone by the Earl of Oxford in my own trade as a scholar , and too good a courtier not to discover his contempt of those who would be men of importance out of their sphere . Befides , to say the truth , although I have ...
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... myself against a Popish fuc- ceffor to the crown , whatever title he might have by the proximity of blood . Neither did I ever regard the right line , except upon two accounts ; firft , as it was established by law ; and , fecondly , as ...
... myself against a Popish fuc- ceffor to the crown , whatever title he might have by the proximity of blood . Neither did I ever regard the right line , except upon two accounts ; firft , as it was established by law ; and , fecondly , as ...
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... myself to the fcene , and the bufinefs to which fortune hath condemned me ; and stupidity was what I bad recourse to . Besides , what a figure fhould I make in London , while my friends are in poverty , exile , di- ftrefs , or ...
... myself to the fcene , and the bufinefs to which fortune hath condemned me ; and stupidity was what I bad recourse to . Besides , what a figure fhould I make in London , while my friends are in poverty , exile , di- ftrefs , or ...
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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...