 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 páginas
...vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grand-children. Envy and impotent desires...principally directed, are the vices of the younger * If it be said, that, although the folly of desiring life to be prolonged under the disadvantages... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 páginas
...descended below their grandchildren. Envy, and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. lint those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of things it is possible, an exemption from disease, acci. dent, and decay, is tacitly allowed. It may... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 494 páginas
...vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grand-children. Envy and impotent desires...pleasure; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others are gone to a harbour of rest to which they themselves never can hope to arrive.... | |
 | Joseph Droz - 1832 - 340 páginas
...and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and their impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects, against which their envy seems particularly directed, are the vices of the younger sort, and the death of the old. By reflecting on... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 páginas
...a dissolution Mipears to be all that was necessary in a moral writer for practical purposes.— H. below their grandchildren. Envy, and impotent desires, are their prevailing passions. But thoaa objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 páginas
...vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grand-children. Envy and impotent desires...from all possibility of pleasure : and whenever they sec a funeral, they lament and repine that others are gone to a harbour of rest to which they themselves... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 314 páginas
...vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and impotent desires...from all possibility of pleasure ; and whenever they sec a funeral, they lament and repent that others are gone to a harbour of rest, to which they themselves... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 páginas
...vain, talkative ; but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy, and impotent desires,...; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others are gone to a harbour of rest, to which they themselves never can hope to arrive.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 páginas
...vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and impotent desires...; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others are gone to a harbour of rest, to which they themselves never can hope to arrive.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 páginas
...vain, talkative ; but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. " Envy and impotent desires...; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others are gone to a harbour of rest, to which they themselves never can hope to arrive.... | |
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Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort, and the deaths of the old. 
