The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poemsA. Constable, 1814 |
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... Learning call ? paradox make good , mere remembrance all ; reasure and our food ; k , our tender souls , h old and empty rules , ms of the schools : ghty treasures look ave a book ; e does all her treasures hide , ghost still haunts ...
... Learning call ? paradox make good , mere remembrance all ; reasure and our food ; k , our tender souls , h old and empty rules , ms of the schools : ghty treasures look ave a book ; e does all her treasures hide , ghost still haunts ...
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... learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of souls . V. Let not old Rome boast Fabius's fate ; • He sav'd his country by delays , But you by peace * . You bought it a cheaper rate ; * Sir William Temple was ...
... learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of souls . V. Let not old Rome boast Fabius's fate ; • He sav'd his country by delays , But you by peace * . You bought it a cheaper rate ; * Sir William Temple was ...
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... learning Face . " If the knowledge of t at all inferior to that of their gr of communication made some ar only to answer curious queries " I have been told , that Drydo Cousin Swift , you will ne annciation was the motive of Sw Dryden ...
... learning Face . " If the knowledge of t at all inferior to that of their gr of communication made some ar only to answer curious queries " I have been told , that Drydo Cousin Swift , you will ne annciation was the motive of Sw Dryden ...
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... learning and removing epidemic rance . " If the knowledge of this second best instituti at all inferior to that of their great prototype , their re of communication made some amends ; for they propos only to answer curious queries in ...
... learning and removing epidemic rance . " If the knowledge of this second best instituti at all inferior to that of their great prototype , their re of communication made some amends ; for they propos only to answer curious queries in ...
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... learning and the wit , tle seems to shew - whom the book was writ , ey be brought to know , was he , or you , or I ? r with transitory praise , s of these days : The greatest scorn of ( And then how much Those reason is weighe Who , by ...
... learning and the wit , tle seems to shew - whom the book was writ , ey be brought to know , was he , or you , or I ? r with transitory praise , s of these days : The greatest scorn of ( And then how much Those reason is weighe Who , by ...
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
Pasajes populares
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.