The Life of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinJ. Murray, 1882 - 576 páginas |
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Página vii
... appeared in November , 1751 : and so great was the interest in the subject , that Lord Orrery has noted in his own copy of the book , that within a month of its publication , 7,500 copies had been sold . * It was followed by the ...
... appeared in November , 1751 : and so great was the interest in the subject , that Lord Orrery has noted in his own copy of the book , that within a month of its publication , 7,500 copies had been sold . * It was followed by the ...
Página viii
... appeared in 1814 , was the first to deal in a broad and generous spirit with the character of Swift . Rapid and cursory as the biography often is , Scott's genius did more for Swift than many a workman of greater care and elaboration ...
... appeared in 1814 , was the first to deal in a broad and generous spirit with the character of Swift . Rapid and cursory as the biography often is , Scott's genius did more for Swift than many a workman of greater care and elaboration ...
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... appearance of mental callousness , and a certain severity of self - repression were to be achieved by him : and setting these before him , he chose to call the outside that he presented to the world " a cold temper . " The interest of ...
... appearance of mental callousness , and a certain severity of self - repression were to be achieved by him : and setting these before him , he chose to call the outside that he presented to the world " a cold temper . " The interest of ...
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... appeared as the ampion of national independence , was not , as we shall find , rgotten by the English government as a lesson for the ture . It was in a period so critical to the Irish establishment , that Swift joined her ranks . We ...
... appeared as the ampion of national independence , was not , as we shall find , rgotten by the English government as a lesson for the ture . It was in a period so critical to the Irish establishment , that Swift joined her ranks . We ...
Página 48
... appearance the wound healed over . It says much , indeed , for the foundation of solid mutual respect that subsisted between Swift and Temple , that the humble letter had the effect of bringing the friends together . The certificate was ...
... appearance the wound healed over . It says much , indeed , for the foundation of solid mutual respect that subsisted between Swift and Temple , that the humble letter had the effect of bringing the friends together . The certificate was ...
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Addison amongst Arbuthnot Archbishop King attack Bill Bishop Bishop of Clogher Bolingbroke Brobdingnag Church contempt Court cynicism danger Deane Swift Deanery death Delany doubt Drapier Dublin Duke edition England English Esther Johnson favour feeling friends friendship genius give hand Harley Holyhead honour hopes humour indignation interest Ireland Irish Jacobite Jonathan Swift Kilroot Lady Laracor letter literary lived London Lord Orrery Lord Somers Lord Treasurer Marlborough marriage memory ment ministers Ministry misanthropy Moor Park never Oxford pamphlet Parliament party passed passion Patrick's perhaps poem political poor Pope Pope's Queen refused religion ridicule sarcasm satire says Swift scarcely scheme Scott Scriblerus Club seems Sheridan shews Sir William Temple Somers Stella story strange struggle sympathy Tale tells Temple's thought tion told Tory Vanessa Walpole Whigs words writes written wrote
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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...