The Life of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinJ. Murray, 1882 - 576 páginas |
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Página viii
... given to Hawkesworth : he did not afford either the time or the labour necessary to elucidate difficulties , or study character : and even the vigorous and trenchant criticism for which the Life is valuable , is marred by the inveterate ...
... given to Hawkesworth : he did not afford either the time or the labour necessary to elucidate difficulties , or study character : and even the vigorous and trenchant criticism for which the Life is valuable , is marred by the inveterate ...
Página x
... given us a clear , succinct , and graphic narrative : but on the difficult passages in Swift's life he has scarcely thrown fresh light . Of his new matter , some was derived from authorities scarcely deserving the regard which Scott was ...
... given us a clear , succinct , and graphic narrative : but on the difficult passages in Swift's life he has scarcely thrown fresh light . Of his new matter , some was derived from authorities scarcely deserving the regard which Scott was ...
Página xiii
... given me access to certain MSS . in his possession , which were in Scott's hands , but the importance of one of which , at least , he overlooked . From Major Stopford , I have obtained letters from Swift to Dr. Stopford : and through Mr ...
... given me access to certain MSS . in his possession , which were in Scott's hands , but the importance of one of which , at least , he overlooked . From Major Stopford , I have obtained letters from Swift to Dr. Stopford : and through Mr ...
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... given him in his boyhood . To the gloom that it bred in him he ascribed , writing more than forty years afterwards , the poor use that he then made of his time . " By the ill - treatment of his nearest relations , " he says , " he was ...
... given him in his boyhood . To the gloom that it bred in him he ascribed , writing more than forty years afterwards , the poor use that he then made of his time . " By the ill - treatment of his nearest relations , " he says , " he was ...
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... given in the Roll , where he was defective in two out of three subjects , Swift could not have passed the terminal examination for Easter , 1685 : he would therefore lose one of the twelve terms necessary before he could be admitted to ...
... given in the Roll , where he was defective in two out of three subjects , Swift could not have passed the terminal examination for Easter , 1685 : he would therefore lose one of the twelve terms necessary before he could be admitted to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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...