The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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... hours in the Park . We have generally one fair day , and then a great deal of rain for three or four days together . All things are at a stop in parliament for want of Mr. Harley ; they cannot ftir an inch without him in their moft ...
... hours in the Park . We have generally one fair day , and then a great deal of rain for three or four days together . All things are at a stop in parliament for want of Mr. Harley ; they cannot ftir an inch without him in their moft ...
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... hour with Mrs. St. John , who is growing a great favourite of mine ; fhe goes to the Bath on Wednesday , for fhe is much out of health , and has begged me to take care of the Secretary . 8. I dined to - day with Mr. Secretary St. John ...
... hour with Mrs. St. John , who is growing a great favourite of mine ; fhe goes to the Bath on Wednesday , for fhe is much out of health , and has begged me to take care of the Secretary . 8. I dined to - day with Mr. Secretary St. John ...
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... hour with him this morning deep in politicks , where I told him the objections of the October Club , and he answered all except one , That no enquiries are made into into past mismanagement . But indeed I believe they are 30 DR . SWIFT's.
... hour with him this morning deep in politicks , where I told him the objections of the October Club , and he answered all except one , That no enquiries are made into into past mismanagement . But indeed I believe they are 30 DR . SWIFT's.
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... hour with her , and we were good company , when in came the Countess of Bellamont , with a pox . I went out , and we did not know one another ; yet hearing me named , fhe afk'd , What , is that Dr. Swift ? faid , he and I were very well ...
... hour with her , and we were good company , when in came the Countess of Bellamont , with a pox . I went out , and we did not know one another ; yet hearing me named , fhe afk'd , What , is that Dr. Swift ? faid , he and I were very well ...
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... hour after nine , and went to the Secretary , who told me how he had differed with his friends in Parliament : I apprehended this divifion , and told him a eat deal of it . I went to Court , and there feveral mentioned it to me as what ...
... hour after nine , and went to the Secretary , who told me how he had differed with his friends in Parliament : I apprehended this divifion , and told him a eat deal of it . I went to Court , and there feveral mentioned it to me as what ...
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Página 79 - We take in none but men of wit or men of interest ; and if we go on as we begin, no other Club in this town will be worth talking of.
Página 9 - I called at Mr. Secretary the other day, to see what the d ailed him on Sunday : I made him a very proper speech ; told him I observed he was much out of temper, that I did not expect he would tell me the cause, but would be glad to see he was in better...
Página 345 - These devils of Grub Street rogues, that write the Flying Post and Medley in one paper, will not be quiet. They are always mauling Lord Treasurer, Lord Bolingbroke, and me. We have the dog under prosecution, but Bolingbroke is not active enough ; but I hope to swinge him. He is a Scotch rogue, one Ridpath. They get out upon bail, and write on. We take them again, and get fresh bail ; so it goes round.
Página 10 - Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons. I have plucked up my spirit since then, faith ; he spoiled a fine gentleman.
Página 10 - I expected every great minister, who honoured me with his acquaintance, if he heard or saw any thing to my disadvantage, would let me know in plain words, and not put me in pain to guess by the change or coldness of his countenance or behaviour; for it was what I would hardly bear from a crowned head, and I thought no subject's favour was worth it; and that I designed to let my lord keeper and Mr. Harley know the same thing, that they might use me accordingly.
Página 393 - ... afraid to knock at the door ; my mind misgave me. I knocked ; and his man in tears told me his master was dead an hour before. Think what grief this is to me ! I went to his mother, and have been ordering things for his funeral with as little cost as possible, to-morrow at ten at night.
Página 115 - ... after the wheat in such a field ; he went to visit his hounds, and knew all their names ; he and his lady saw me to my chamber just in the country fashion. His house...
Página 348 - ... to be a greater loser in all regards. She has moved my very soul. The lodging was inconvenient, and they would have removed her to another ; but I would not suffer it, because it had no room backward, and she must have been tortured with the noise of the Grub street screamers mentioning her husband's murder in her ears.
Página 261 - I saw Prince Eugene to-day at court : I don't think him an ugly faced fellow, but well enough, and a good shape.
Página 426 - I was this morning at ten at the rehearsal of Mr. Addison's play, called Cato, which is to be acted on Friday. There were not above half a score of us to see it. We stood on the stage, and it was foolish enough to see the actors prompted every moment, and the poet directing them ; and the drab that acts Cato's daughter * out in the midst of a passionate part, and then calling out, " What's next ?" The bishop of Clogher was there too; but he stood privately in a gallery.