The Life of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinJ. Murray, 1882 - 576 páginas |
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Página xvii
... - Sacheverell's impeach- ment - Feelings of the nation - The trial - Unpopularity of the Govern- ment - Marlborough's demand to be made Captain - General for life- b The Duchess of Marlborough and the Queen - The Whigs CONTENTS . xvii.
... - Sacheverell's impeach- ment - Feelings of the nation - The trial - Unpopularity of the Govern- ment - Marlborough's demand to be made Captain - General for life- b The Duchess of Marlborough and the Queen - The Whigs CONTENTS . xvii.
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Sir Henry Craik. The Duchess of Marlborough and the Queen - The Whigs losing ground -Swift at Laracor - The attack upon the Test - His tract against the Government , on the election of Irish Speaker - His mother's death- Correspondence ...
Sir Henry Craik. The Duchess of Marlborough and the Queen - The Whigs losing ground -Swift at Laracor - The attack upon the Test - His tract against the Government , on the election of Irish Speaker - His mother's death- Correspondence ...
Página xix
... Queen— The Bandbox plot - The Duke of Hamilton's death - Swift's sympathy for his widow - Lady Ashburnham's death - The end of Harrison-- The Proposal for improving the English Tongue - Its literary aim - The Peace of Utrecht - Swift's ...
... Queen— The Bandbox plot - The Duke of Hamilton's death - Swift's sympathy for his widow - Lady Ashburnham's death - The end of Harrison-- The Proposal for improving the English Tongue - Its literary aim - The Peace of Utrecht - Swift's ...
Página xx
... Queen - His fall - The illness of the Queen - Confusion in the Ministry - Shrewsbury Lord Treasurer - The Queen's death - Ruin of the Tories - Note on the Wagstaffe Volume · CHAPTER XII . SWIFT IN RETIREMENT . Effect of the quiet time ...
... Queen - His fall - The illness of the Queen - Confusion in the Ministry - Shrewsbury Lord Treasurer - The Queen's death - Ruin of the Tories - Note on the Wagstaffe Volume · CHAPTER XII . SWIFT IN RETIREMENT . Effect of the quiet time ...
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... Queen - The Pilking- tons - Later literary efforts - Verses on the death of Dr. Swift — The Beasts ' Confession - The Place of the Damned - The Day of Judgment -The Rhapsody on Poetry - Polite Conversations — Directions to Servants ...
... Queen - The Pilking- tons - Later literary efforts - Verses on the death of Dr. Swift — The Beasts ' Confession - The Place of the Damned - The Day of Judgment -The Rhapsody on Poetry - Polite Conversations — Directions to Servants ...
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Página 129 - Pray, sir, do you remember any good weather in the world?' The country gentleman, after staring a little at the singularity of his manner, and the oddity of the question, answered, ' Yes, sir, I thank God I remember a great deal of good weather in my time.
Página 314 - To like with less seraphic ends ; Or, to compound the business, whether They temper love and books together ; Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold.
Página 485 - I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I caB say is, that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few; few and miserable they must be.
Página 408 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Página 44 - To thee I owe that fatal bent of mind, Still to unhappy restless thoughts inclined ; To thee, what oft I vainly strive to hide, That scorn of fools, by fools mistook for pride...
Página 288 - I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller, than death was to her...
Página 466 - For we know by these marks the place of the damn'd : And HELL to be sure is at Paris or Rome. How happy for us that it is not at home ! THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.
Página 389 - In the Attic commonwealth,* it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public...
Página 447 - If he should travel about the country, he would have hecatombs of roasted oxen sacrificed to him.
Página 346 - Am I a freeman in England, and do I become a slave in six hours by crossing the channel...