Epistolary correspondence. v. 19. Epistolary correspondence. Appendix to the original correspondence between Dean Swift and his friends. Correspondence between Swift and Miss VanhomrighArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 62
עמוד 7
... favour , where you meet with nothing but complaints and reproaches instead of acknowledgments , for thinking , in the midst of courts and diversions , upon an absent and insignificant man , buried in obscurity : but I know it is as hard ...
... favour , where you meet with nothing but complaints and reproaches instead of acknowledgments , for thinking , in the midst of courts and diversions , upon an absent and insignificant man , buried in obscurity : but I know it is as hard ...
עמוד 9
... favour of Mr Sheridan . I beg you will take your time for bestowing on him some church living , to the value of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum . He is * In consequence of this letter , Dr Sheridan was promoted to a living in the ...
... favour of Mr Sheridan . I beg you will take your time for bestowing on him some church living , to the value of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum . He is * In consequence of this letter , Dr Sheridan was promoted to a living in the ...
עמוד 15
... favour to Mr Sheridan , be- cause when I recommended him to you , I received a very gracious answer ; and yet I am sensible , that your chief motive to make some provision for him was , what became a great and good person , your ...
... favour to Mr Sheridan , be- cause when I recommended him to you , I received a very gracious answer ; and yet I am sensible , that your chief motive to make some provision for him was , what became a great and good person , your ...
עמוד 18
... favours without the least regard to abilities or virtue . And this defect I have often found among those from whom I least expected it . That your excellency may long live a blessing and ornament to your country by pursuing , as you ...
... favours without the least regard to abilities or virtue . And this defect I have often found among those from whom I least expected it . That your excellency may long live a blessing and ornament to your country by pursuing , as you ...
עמוד 27
... favour of your letter ; I am vexed that the trifle of the ring should not have reached you ; I found where the fault lay ; I hope you will soon receive both the picture and the ring safe : I have ordered them to the care of Erasmus ...
... favour of your letter ; I am vexed that the trifle of the ring should not have reached you ; I found where the fault lay ; I hope you will soon receive both the picture and the ring safe : I have ordered them to the care of Erasmus ...
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance Adieu affairs Amesbury answer Beggar's Opera believe Carteret COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK court Dawley deafness Dean Dean's deanery DEAR SIR desire Dr Arbuthnot Dr Delany DR SHERIDAN Dublin Duchess of Queensberry Duke Dunciad England esteem expect favour fear fortune friendship Gay's giddiness give glad grace Gulliver Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels hand hath hear honour hope Houyhnhnms Howard humble servant humour Ireland j'ai John Gay king kingdom lady leave letter live London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Carteret lord-lieutenant MADAM mention monsieur never obedient obliged person pleased pleasure Pope pounds Pray present prince princess Princess of Wales printed Pulteney queen reason received sent Sir Robert Walpole soon SWIFT tell thank thing thought told town Twickenham verses VOLTAIRE WARTON wish Worrall writ write
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 44 - Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are by Whigs — and generally by Tories too. Because he had humour, he was supposed to have dealt with Dr. Swift, in like manner as when any one had learning formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil...
עמוד 188 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
עמוד 40 - Upon this great foundation of misanthropy (though not in Timon's manner) the whole building of my travels is erected ; and I never will have peace of mind till all honest men are of my opinion...
עמוד 276 - Pray, my lord, how are the gardens ? have you taken down the mount, and removed the yew hedges ? Have you not bad weather for the spring corn ? Has Mr. Pope gone farther in his Ethic Poems ?* and is the head-land sown with wheat ? and what says Polybius ? and how does my Lord St.
עמוד 191 - Have you dedicated your opera, and got the usual dedication fee of twenty guineas ? How is the doctor ? does he not chide that you never called upon him for hints ? Is my Lord Bolingbroke, at the moment I am writing, a planter, a philosopher, or a writer ? Is Mr. Pulteney in...
עמוד 225 - ... admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him...
עמוד 291 - Some comedy, a great deal of tragedy, and the whole interspersed with scenes of Harlequin, Scaramouch, and Dr Baloardo, the prototype of your hero Oxford.
עמוד 39 - I have employed my time (besides ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my ' Travels ' [Gulliver's], in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended for the press when the world shall deserve them, or rather, when a printer shall be found brave enough to venture his ears.
עמוד 226 - Dunciad ' is going to be printed in all pomp, with the inscription, which makes me proudest. It will be attended with proeme, prolegomena, testimonia scriptorum, index authorum, and notes variorum. As to the latter, I desire you to read over the text, and make a few in any way you like best ; whether dry raillery, upon the style and way of commenting of trivial critics ; or humorous, upon the authors in the poem ; or historical, of persons, places, times ; or explanatory, or collecting the parallel...
עמוד 276 - It is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.