The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper & brothers, 1854 - 297 páginas |
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... believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance . His spirit , for I would give it the proper name , was ever untractable . The motions of his genius ...
... believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance . His spirit , for I would give it the proper name , was ever untractable . The motions of his genius ...
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... believe really fervent , in their expressions of belief ; they belaboured freethinkers , and stoned imaginary atheists a town of England or Ireland ; were consecrated such a year ; and , if not trans- lated , were buried in the ...
... believe really fervent , in their expressions of belief ; they belaboured freethinkers , and stoned imaginary atheists a town of England or Ireland ; were consecrated such a year ; and , if not trans- lated , were buried in the ...
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... some worthy partner , and lived long enough to see her little boys laughing over Lilliput , without any arrière pensée of a sad character about the great Dean ! and deplores you ? Scarce any man , I believe SWIFT . 39.
... some worthy partner , and lived long enough to see her little boys laughing over Lilliput , without any arrière pensée of a sad character about the great Dean ! and deplores you ? Scarce any man , I believe SWIFT . 39.
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... believe , ever thought of that grave , that did not cast a flower of pity on it , and write over it a sweet epitaph . Gentle lady ! — so lovely , so loving , so unhappy . You have had countless champions , millions of manly hearts ...
... believe , ever thought of that grave , that did not cast a flower of pity on it , and write over it a sweet epitaph . Gentle lady ! — so lovely , so loving , so unhappy . You have had countless champions , millions of manly hearts ...
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... did you but know what I thought , I am sure it would move you to forgive me ; and believe I cannot help telling you this and live . " -VANESSA . ( M. 1714. ) business until the impetuous Vanessa becomes too fond of him SWIFT . 45 .
... did you but know what I thought , I am sure it would move you to forgive me ; and believe I cannot help telling you this and live . " -VANESSA . ( M. 1714. ) business until the impetuous Vanessa becomes too fond of him SWIFT . 45 .
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Página 263 - Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return, — and die at home at last.
Página 127 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Página 290 - Had she a brother ? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other ? Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh ! it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full, Home she had none.
Página 127 - And you, who never fell from pride : You who in different sects were shamm'd, And come to see each other damn'd ; (So some folk told you, but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you ;) — The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent these pranks no more. — I to such blockheads set my wit ! I damn such fools ! — -Go, go, you're bit.
Página 88 - They were neither of them dissatisfied with the knight's determination, because neither of them found himself in the wrong by it : upon which we made the best of our way to the assizes. The court was sat before Sir Roger came, but notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them : who, for his reputation in the country, took occasion to whisper in the judge's ' ear, that he was glad his lordship had met with so much good...
Página 185 - Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Página 35 - Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort, and the deaths of the old.
Página 143 - tis his fancy to run, At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way; They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
Página 25 - When I came to the ante-chamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a Master of Requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay fees.
Página 49 - So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.