The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published, Volumen9Bickers, 1883 |
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... English Tongue , in a Letter to the most Honourable Robert , Earl of Oxford and Mortimer , Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain , An Essay on Modern Education , Hints toward an Essay on Conversation , • A Letter of Advice to a Young ...
... English Tongue , in a Letter to the most Honourable Robert , Earl of Oxford and Mortimer , Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain , An Essay on Modern Education , Hints toward an Essay on Conversation , • A Letter of Advice to a Young ...
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... English writers , the great depravity of our taste , and the continual cor- ruption of our style . I say nothing here of those who handle particular sciences , divinity , law , physic , and the like ; I mean the traders in history , and ...
... English writers , the great depravity of our taste , and the continual cor- ruption of our style . I say nothing here of those who handle particular sciences , divinity , law , physic , and the like ; I mean the traders in history , and ...
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... English tongue , * which , without some timely remedy , will suffer more by the false refine- ments of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . And this is what I design chiefly to enlarge upon , leaving ...
... English tongue , * which , without some timely remedy , will suffer more by the false refine- ments of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . And this is what I design chiefly to enlarge upon , leaving ...
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... English and Mr. William Scot : among other things , the maid of the house , who in her time , I believe , may have been a North - British warming- pan , brought us up a dish of North - British collops . We liked our entertainment very ...
... English and Mr. William Scot : among other things , the maid of the house , who in her time , I believe , may have been a North - British warming- pan , brought us up a dish of North - British collops . We liked our entertainment very ...
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... see so much matter , and so many useful hints upon this subject , laid together in so clear and con- cise a manner.— VOL . IX . * Earl of Godolphin . F " The English have not been so careful as other THE GUARDIAN , No. XCVI . 81.
... see so much matter , and so many useful hints upon this subject , laid together in so clear and con- cise a manner.— VOL . IX . * Earl of Godolphin . F " The English have not been so careful as other THE GUARDIAN , No. XCVI . 81.
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Página 293 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Página 118 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, (all covered with powder,) that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the...
Página 118 - THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to...
Página 266 - This day, being Sunday, January 28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person ever was blessed with.
Página 353 - But every single character in Shakespeare is as much an individual, as those in life itself; it is as impossible to find any two alike; and such as from their relation or affinity in any respect appear most to be twins, will upon comparison be found remarkably distinct.
Página 353 - ... had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the persons, I believe one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker.
Página 215 - Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Página 329 - A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF GENTEEL AND INGENIOUS CONVERSATION, ACCORDING TO THE MOST POLITE MODE AND METHOD, NOW USED AT COURT, AND IN THE BEST COMPANIES OF ENGLAND.
Página 214 - The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.
Página 40 - But instead of giving you a list of the late refinements crept into our language, I here send you the copy of a letter I received some time ago from a most accomplished person in this way of writing, upon which I shall make some remarks. It is in these terms. "'SiR, "'I cou'dnt get the things you sent for all about Town. — I thot to ha come down myself, and then I'd ha' broufum; but I han't don't, and I believe I can't do't, that's pozz.