The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory, Volumen6C. Bathurst, 1754 |
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... Fools , fops , and rakes , for chaff and ftraws . Hence we conclude , no women's hearts Are won by virtue , wit , and parts ; Nor are the men of fenfe to blame , For breasts incapable of flame : The fault muft on the nymphs be plac'd ...
... Fools , fops , and rakes , for chaff and ftraws . Hence we conclude , no women's hearts Are won by virtue , wit , and parts ; Nor are the men of fenfe to blame , For breasts incapable of flame : The fault muft on the nymphs be plac'd ...
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... fools : Yet now and then your men of wit Will condefcend to take a bit . 1 So , when Cadenus cou'd not hide , He chofe to justify , his pride ; When When mifs delights in her spinnet , A fiddler may ༢༠ CADENUS and VANESSA .
... fools : Yet now and then your men of wit Will condefcend to take a bit . 1 So , when Cadenus cou'd not hide , He chofe to justify , his pride ; When When mifs delights in her spinnet , A fiddler may ༢༠ CADENUS and VANESSA .
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... fools I never faw Come with petitions fairly penn'd , Defiring I wou'd ftand their friend . This humbly offers me his cafe That begs my int'reft for a place · An hundred other men's affairs Like bees are humming in my ears . " To ...
... fools I never faw Come with petitions fairly penn'd , Defiring I wou'd ftand their friend . This humbly offers me his cafe That begs my int'reft for a place · An hundred other men's affairs Like bees are humming in my ears . " To ...
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... fools I meet , And catechis'd in ev'ry street . << < c 90 " You , mr . dean , frequent the great ; " Inform us , will the emp'ror treat ? " Or , do the prints and papers lye ? " 95 Faith , fir , you know as much as I. " Ah ! doctor ...
... fools I meet , And catechis'd in ev'ry street . << < c 90 " You , mr . dean , frequent the great ; " Inform us , will the emp'ror treat ? " Or , do the prints and papers lye ? " 95 Faith , fir , you know as much as I. " Ah ! doctor ...
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... fool , Is in all points the fittest tool ; Of whom it may be juftly faid , He's a gold pencil tipp'd with lead . MRS . HARRIS's PETITION . Written in the Year 1701 . To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland * The humble ...
... fool , Is in all points the fittest tool ; Of whom it may be juftly faid , He's a gold pencil tipp'd with lead . MRS . HARRIS's PETITION . Written in the Year 1701 . To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland * The humble ...
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Página 146 - Tis but the funeral of the former year. Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear...
Página 263 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE, Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY : His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Página 30 - Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Página 43 - A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again.
Página 196 - To raise the lumber from the earth. But view him in another scene, When all his drink is Hippocrene, His money...
Página 300 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Página 45 - Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within...
Página 301 - tis a shocking sight, And he's engaged to-morrow night; My Lady Club will take it ill, If he should fail her at quadrille. He loved the Dean— (I lead a heart,) But dearest friends, they say, must part. His time was come: he ran his race; We hope he's in a better place.
Página 146 - See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot, Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot!
Página 299 - He'll treat me as he does my betters, Publish my will, my life, my letters ; Revive the libels born to die : Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament.