The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poemsA. Constable, 1814 |
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... Fair . The tune have been very popular , and the words the subject of ma dies . See one upon an adventure of Jonathan Wild , in Swift's Miscellanies , Vol . XIII . p . 365 . Bush . The following lines , among other satirical eff.
... Fair . The tune have been very popular , and the words the subject of ma dies . See one upon an adventure of Jonathan Wild , in Swift's Miscellanies , Vol . XIII . p . 365 . Bush . The following lines , among other satirical eff.
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... fair , Here's one will fit you to a But , as the writing doth pro Tis fit the ingredients we Tay he went , and search ' And every street about the Diseases , impudence , and li Are found and brought him from Hackney then he did A clumsy ...
... fair , Here's one will fit you to a But , as the writing doth pro Tis fit the ingredients we Tay he went , and search ' And every street about the Diseases , impudence , and li Are found and brought him from Hackney then he did A clumsy ...
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... fair and soft , ant aloft ; and rafter ; ' d slowly after . en'd , and grew higher , th a spire . top was hoist , en'd to a joist , e down , to show below : erior force n stops its course : The flier , though m'd round so quick you s ...
... fair and soft , ant aloft ; and rafter ; ' d slowly after . en'd , and grew higher , th a spire . top was hoist , en'd to a joist , e down , to show below : erior force n stops its course : The flier , though m'd round so quick you s ...
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... fair , yet seems The tuck'd - up sempstress w While streams run down her Here various kinds , by vari mmence acquaintance un Triumphant Tories , and des Forget their feuds , and join " Twas doubtful which was s Originally thus , but ...
... fair , yet seems The tuck'd - up sempstress w While streams run down her Here various kinds , by vari mmence acquaintance un Triumphant Tories , and des Forget their feuds , and join " Twas doubtful which was s Originally thus , but ...
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... fair , yet seems to call a coach . The tuck'd - up sempstress walks with hasty strid While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sid Here various kinds , by various fortunes led , Commence acquaintance underneath a shed . Triumphant ...
... fair , yet seems to call a coach . The tuck'd - up sempstress walks with hasty strid While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sid Here various kinds , by various fortunes led , Commence acquaintance underneath a shed . Triumphant ...
Términos y frases comunes
Apollo bard beaux Behold bipes CADENUS AND VANESSA cassock Celia Chloe CORYDON court crowd dame Daphne Dean dear death divine Dr Delany Dublin e'er EPIGRAM eyes face fame fancy fate favourite female fix'd foes folly fools George give Glocest goddess grace half head hear heart honour Ireland JONATHAN SWIFT Jove king lady late learning Lord Lord Carteret madam maid mankind Marble Hill merit mind Muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain Pallas passion Phoebus POEMS poetic poets poor praise pride queen rage rape rhyme rivers mourn round scene scorn shine siege of Namur Sir William Temple soon spleen Stella STELLA'S BIRTH-DAY stinking Strephon tell thee thou thought thousand told truth Twas verse vex'd virtue Whigs William Sancroft wise Woolston writ youth
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Página 328 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a Sigh I wish it mine ; When He can in one Couplet fix More Sense than I can do in six ; It gives me such a jealous Fit, I cry
Página 335 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, " I'm sorry — but we all must die...
Página 327 - I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast: "In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends: While nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Página 329 - To hear his out-of-fashion wit? But he takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. 'Faith he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades once a quarter : In half the time he talks them round ; There must another set be found.
Página 329 - tis hardly understood Which way my death can do them good, Yet thus, methinks, I hear them speak: ' See how the Dean begins to break! Poor gentleman, he droops apace! You plainly find it in his face. That old vertigo in his head Will never leave him, till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays: He recollects not what he says; He cannot call his friends to mind; Forgets the place where last he dined; Plies you with stories o'er and o'er; He told them fifty times before.
Página 137 - They dance in a round, Cutting capers and ramping; A mercy the ground Did not burst with their stamping.
Página 339 - LIBERTY was all his cry; for her he stood prepar'd to die; for her he boldly stood alone; for her he oft" expos'd his own. Two kingdoms, just as faction led, had set a price upon his head ; but not a traitor could be found, to sell him for six hundred pound. Had he...
Página 96 - 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 293 - Should to the priest confess their sins ; And thus the pious Wolf begins : — Good father, I must own with shame, That often I have been to blame : I must confess, on Friday last, Wretch that I was ! I broke my fast : But I defy the basest tongue To prove I did my neighbour wrong ; Or ever went to seek my food, By rapine, theft, or thirst of blood.
Página 95 - tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds, by various fortunes led, Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.