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 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 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 Pindarics poem political Pope Pope's Queen refused ridicule sarcasm satire says Swift scarcely scheme Scott Scriblerus Club seems Sheridan shews Sir William Sir William Temple Somers Stella story strange struggle sympathy Tale tells Temple Temple's thought tion told Tory Vanessa Walpole Whigs words writes written wrote
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Página 403 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh...
Página 127 - 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 478 - If you see this matter in the same light that it appears to me, I hope you will burn this and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing ; but, if you think there is a probability of obtaining the favour asked, I am sure your humanity, and propensity to relieve merit in distress, will incline you to serve the poor man, without my adding any more to the trouble I have already given you, than assuring you that I am, with great truth, Sir, " Your faithful servant,
Página 332 - I do profess without affectation, that your kind opinion of me as a patriot, since you call it so, is what I do not deserve; because what I do is owing to perfect rage and resentment, and the mortifying sight of slavery, folly, and baseness about me, among which I am forced to live.
Página 483 - I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf and full of pain. I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I can 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. I am, for those few days, Yours- entirely, J. SWIFT. If I do not blunder,...
Página 312 - 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 406 - 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 286 - I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller, than death was to her...
Página 464 - 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 387 - In the Attic commonwealth,* it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public...