The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, כרך 14J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 4
... hope for some favour ; if the tories return , you are at least sure of quiet . You know how well I loved both lord Oxford and Bolingbroke , and how dear the duke of Ormond is to me : do you imagine I can be easy while * Dr. St. George ...
... hope for some favour ; if the tories return , you are at least sure of quiet . You know how well I loved both lord Oxford and Bolingbroke , and how dear the duke of Ormond is to me : do you imagine I can be easy while * Dr. St. George ...
עמוד 7
... hope * Alluding to his constant custom of sleeping after dinner . + In Curll's collection . It is observable that he doth not deny his being the writer of them . One who made a noise then , as count Bonneval has done since . it may make ...
... hope * Alluding to his constant custom of sleeping after dinner . + In Curll's collection . It is observable that he doth not deny his being the writer of them . One who made a noise then , as count Bonneval has done since . it may make ...
עמוד 24
... hope for by this letter , is to convince my friends , and others who are pleased to wish me well , that I have neither been so ill a sub- ject , nor so stupid an author , as I have been repre- sented by the virulence of libellers ...
... hope for by this letter , is to convince my friends , and others who are pleased to wish me well , that I have neither been so ill a sub- ject , nor so stupid an author , as I have been repre- sented by the virulence of libellers ...
עמוד 25
... hope ) to take me with all his other hereditary rights : and , indeed , he seems grown so much a philosopher , as to set his heart upon some of them as little , as upon the poet you gave him . It is surely my ill fate , that all those I ...
... hope ) to take me with all his other hereditary rights : and , indeed , he seems grown so much a philosopher , as to set his heart upon some of them as little , as upon the poet you gave him . It is surely my ill fate , that all those I ...
עמוד 28
... hope in time to dispute it , and to urge prescription against me . I would not say one word to you about myself ( since * This letter was printed at the end of the quarto edition very faultily ( as for instance , Arabians for Zabians ...
... hope in time to dispute it , and to urge prescription against me . I would not say one word to you about myself ( since * This letter was printed at the end of the quarto edition very faultily ( as for instance , Arabians for Zabians ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 38 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: it is so with physicians, (I will not speak of my own trade,) soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
עמוד 110 - I of the religion of Erasmus, a Catholic ; so I live, so I shall die ; and hope one day to meet you, Bishop Atterbury, the younger Craggs, Dr.- Garth, Dean Berkley, and Mr.
עמוד 37 - I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is to vex the world rather than divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever seen, without reading.
עמוד 194 - The Whigs were ravished to see me, and would lay hold on me as a twig while they are drowning...
עמוד 97 - As to this country,* there have been three terrible years dearth of corn, and every place strewed with beggars ; but dearths are common in better climates, and our evils here lie much deeper. Imagine a nation the two thirds of...
עמוד 226 - There is a young fellow here in town we are all fond of, and about a year or two come from the university, one Harrison, a pretty little fellow, with a great deal of wit, good sense, and good nature...
עמוד 34 - ... above three or four contemporaries, and, if they could be united, would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of Augustus; but envy, and party, and pride, have hindered it among us.
עמוד 80 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
עמוד 33 - Your happiness is greater than your merit, in choosing your favourites so indifferently among either party; this you owe partly to your education, and partly to your genius employing you in an art in which faction has nothing to do, for I suppose Virgil and Horace are equally read by Whigs and Tories. You have no more to do with the constitution of church and state, than a Christian at Constantinople...
עמוד 72 - I am in my own farm," says he, "and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots: I have caught hold of the earth, to use a gardener's phrase, and neither my enemies nor my friends will find it an easy matter to transplant me again.