The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen 17J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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... sure thou art he . Fair Venus would mistake thee for her own , Did not thy eyes proclaim thee not her son . There all the lightnings of thy mother's shine , And with a fatal brightness kill in thine . First he is Cupid , then he is not ...
... sure thou art he . Fair Venus would mistake thee for her own , Did not thy eyes proclaim thee not her son . There all the lightnings of thy mother's shine , And with a fatal brightness kill in thine . First he is Cupid , then he is not ...
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... sure it is a better design to promote sleep than madness ) we have little to say on this sub- ject . Nor will the short bounds of this discourse allow us to treat at large of the emollients and opiates of poesy ; of the cool , and the ...
... sure it is a better design to promote sleep than madness ) we have little to say on this sub- ject . Nor will the short bounds of this discourse allow us to treat at large of the emollients and opiates of poesy ; of the cool , and the ...
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... sure to run it down , and pursue it as far as it can go . If you get the scent of a state nego → tiation , follow it in this manner : The stones and all the elements with thee Shall ratify a strict confederacy ; Wild beasts their ...
... sure to run it down , and pursue it as far as it can go . If you get the scent of a state nego → tiation , follow it in this manner : The stones and all the elements with thee Shall ratify a strict confederacy ; Wild beasts their ...
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... sure not to omit one circum- stance usual in proclaiming and levying war . Envoys and agents , who by my command Reside in Palestina's land , To whom commissions I have given To manage there the interests of Heaven . Ye holy heralds ...
... sure not to omit one circum- stance usual in proclaiming and levying war . Envoys and agents , who by my command Reside in Palestina's land , To whom commissions I have given To manage there the interests of Heaven . Ye holy heralds ...
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... sure you strain them sufficiently . For the MANNERS . For those of the hero , take all the best qualities you can find in the most celebrated heroes of anti- quity ; if they will not be reduced to a consistency , lay them all on a heap ...
... sure you strain them sufficiently . For the MANNERS . For those of the hero , take all the best qualities you can find in the most celebrated heroes of anti- quity ; if they will not be reduced to a consistency , lay them all on a heap ...
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Página 417 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 112 - And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
Página 115 - Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting foe ! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low.
Página 113 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Página 117 - Haste, then, ye spirits! to your charge repair: The flutt'ring fan be Zephyretta's care; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her fav'rite Lock; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Página 416 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Página 111 - Warn'd by the sylph, oh pious maid, beware ! This to disclose is all thy guardian can ; Beware of all, but most beware of man ! He said ; when Shock, who thought she slept too long, Leap'd up, and wak'd his mistress with his tongue.
Página 416 - But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guess * The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, Just writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year...
Página 59 - THE DESCRIPTIONS. For a tempest.—" Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas, and cast them together in one verse. Add to these of rain, lightning, and of thunder, the loudest you can, quantum sufficit.
Página 144 - John was quick, and understood his business very well; but no man alive was more careless in looking into his accounts, or more cheated by partners, apprentices, and servants.