The Life of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinJ. Murray, 1882 - 576 páginas |
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... mind . But the strangest thing about the town was the double cor- poration with separate jurisdiction . Divided by the stream which runs through the centre , the Roman Catholic and Pro- testant populations lived apart . The endless ...
... mind . But the strangest thing about the town was the double cor- poration with separate jurisdiction . Divided by the stream which runs through the centre , the Roman Catholic and Pro- testant populations lived apart . The endless ...
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... mind which would readily find con- tentment in the fixed studies of any ordained curriculum . The difficulties that occur in regard to his college career , however , arise from the glosses of later authorities . Delany , whose tes ...
... mind which would readily find con- tentment in the fixed studies of any ordained curriculum . The difficulties that occur in regard to his college career , however , arise from the glosses of later authorities . Delany , whose tes ...
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... mind gave way . His death soon followed , in 1688 . But Swift had other relations , for whom he retained a sincere attachment . To his uncle William , he afterwards recalls the early favours he received from him , whom he calls " the ...
... mind gave way . His death soon followed , in 1688 . But Swift had other relations , for whom he retained a sincere attachment . To his uncle William , he afterwards recalls the early favours he received from him , whom he calls " the ...
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... mind was restlessly demanding employment , and when , as he tells us , " a person of great honour in Ireland ( who was pleased to stoop so low as to look into my mind ) used to tell me that my mind was like a conjured spirit , that ...
... mind was restlessly demanding employment , and when , as he tells us , " a person of great honour in Ireland ( who was pleased to stoop so low as to look into my mind ) used to tell me that my mind was like a conjured spirit , that ...
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... mind was still unsettled , this new and larger opportunity of watching the inner movements of great affairs , fascinated Swift's imagination . At the quiet house amidst the Surrey wastes of heather he saw the coming and going of the men ...
... mind was still unsettled , this new and larger opportunity of watching the inner movements of great affairs , fascinated Swift's imagination . At the quiet house amidst the Surrey wastes of heather he saw the coming and going of the men ...
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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...