The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Essays on the portraits of Swift, by Sir Frederick Falkiner, and on Swift and Stella, by the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's. Bibliography of Swift's works, by W. Spencer Jackson, and a general index, comp. by Constance Jacob

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G. Bell, 1908
 

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Página 45 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Página 29 - As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro' all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best...
Página 114 - Predictions for the year 1708; wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as they will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being further imposed on by vulgar almanac-makers.
Página 103 - She had a gracefulness somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action. Never was so happy a conjunction of civility, freedom, easiness and sincerity.
Página 40 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Página 152 - The Hibernian Patriot; being a Collection of the Drapier's Letters to the People of Ireland concerning Mr. Wood's Brass Half-Pence, together with considerations on the attempts made to pass that Coin, and Reasons for the People of Ireland's refusing it.
Página 270 - The Case Stated between the Church of Rome and the Church of England...
Página 84 - I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should read, and perpetually instructing her in the principles of honour and virtue; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of lier life.
Página 90 - I will say no more, but beg you to be easy, 'till fortune take her course, and to believe that MD's felicity is the great end I aim at in all my pursuits.
Página 159 - A serious and useful Scheme, to make an Hospital for Incurables, of Universal Benefit to all His Majesty's Subjects. . . . To which is added, A Petition of the Footmen in and about Dublin.

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