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... expected to say much of a life , concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narrations with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment . JONATHAN SWIFT was , according to an ...
... expected to say much of a life , concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narrations with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment . JONATHAN SWIFT was , according to an ...
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... expected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence , supposed to have been secured by a bribe , it was bestowed on somebody else ; and Swift was dismissed with the livings of Laracor and Rathbeggin in the diocese of Meath , which ...
... expected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence , supposed to have been secured by a bribe , it was bestowed on somebody else ; and Swift was dismissed with the livings of Laracor and Rathbeggin in the diocese of Meath , which ...
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... expected to do every man's business , to procure employment for one , and to retain it for another . In assisting those who addressed him , he represents himself as sufficiently diligent ; and desires to have others believe , what he ...
... expected to do every man's business , to procure employment for one , and to retain it for another . In assisting those who addressed him , he represents himself as sufficiently diligent ; and desires to have others believe , what he ...
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... suades . This authoritative and magisterial lan- guage he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity : but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed imperiousness , in which he E 3 SWIFT . 41.
... suades . This authoritative and magisterial lan- guage he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity : but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed imperiousness , in which he E 3 SWIFT . 41.
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... expected to find an imitator ; But thou , O Muse ! whose sweet nepenthean tongue Can charm the pangs of death with deathless song , Canst stinging plagues with easy thoughts beguile , Make pains and tortures objects of a smile . To ...
... expected to find an imitator ; But thou , O Muse ! whose sweet nepenthean tongue Can charm the pangs of death with deathless song , Canst stinging plagues with easy thoughts beguile , Make pains and tortures objects of a smile . To ...
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Página 203 - Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms—
Página 65 - Guardian"; he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed; he endeavoured to direct his niece till she should be able to direct herself. Poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl.
Página 260 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Página 41 - That's very strange ; but, if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? 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 I' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Página 225 - ... as books or conversation extended his knowledge and opened his prospects. They are, I think, improved in general; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their "race," a word which, applied to wines in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil.
Página 223 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Página 118 - His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause.
Página 127 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Página 196 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Página 148 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.