The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...W. Durell & Company, 1812 |
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... hopes of satisfying his towering ambition . But he found them followed by no- thing but disappointment . In a course of years , honours seemed a second time to make their court to him . He came into favour with a prime minister under ...
... hopes of satisfying his towering ambition . But he found them followed by no- thing but disappointment . In a course of years , honours seemed a second time to make their court to him . He came into favour with a prime minister under ...
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... hopes of satisfying his towering ambition . But he found them followed by no- thing but disappointment . In a course of years , honours seemed a second time to make their court to him . He came into favour with a prime minister under ...
... hopes of satisfying his towering ambition . But he found them followed by no- thing but disappointment . In a course of years , honours seemed a second time to make their court to him . He came into favour with a prime minister under ...
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... hope will be sufficient to make this publi- cation , though without the author's consent or know- ledge , very consistent with that respect I sincerely bear him ; who , if it should not appear to be perfectly without fault , can with ...
... hope will be sufficient to make this publi- cation , though without the author's consent or know- ledge , very consistent with that respect I sincerely bear him ; who , if it should not appear to be perfectly without fault , can with ...
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... hope and expectation are at an end ; they regret pleasures that are past , and friends that are dead ; they complain of disappointment and infirmity , they are conscious that the sands of life which remain are few ; and while we hear ...
... hope and expectation are at an end ; they regret pleasures that are past , and friends that are dead ; they complain of disappointment and infirmity , they are conscious that the sands of life which remain are few ; and while we hear ...
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... hope I shall be able to recover , and send down to posterity . " To the best of my recollection , when I talked to you last November of a preface to these volumes , I had some thoughts of opening a scene , which would have ex- posed to ...
... hope I shall be able to recover , and send down to posterity . " To the best of my recollection , when I talked to you last November of a preface to these volumes , I had some thoughts of opening a scene , which would have ex- posed to ...
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203 페이지 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money.
283 페이지 - 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.
86 페이지 - I should think, that in order to preserve the constitution entire in church and state, whoever has a true value for both, would be sure to avoid the extremes of whig, for the sake of the former ; and the extremes of tory, on account of the latter.
285 페이지 - 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.
234 페이지 - 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 their enemies are endeavouring to take off their heads; I nunc, et versus tecum meditare canoros...
283 페이지 - I find myself disposed every year, or rather every month, to be more angry and revengeful ; and my rage is so ignoble, that it descends even to resent the folly and baseness of the enslaved people among whom I live.
183 페이지 - Lewis's office came to me, and said many things, too long to repeat. I told him, I had nothing to do but go to Ireland immediately; for I could not, with any reputation, stay longer here, unless I had something honourable immediately given to me.
110 페이지 - MD's letter ? one of these oddcome-shortlies. This is a week old, you see, and no farther yet. Mr Harley desired I would dine with him again today ; but I refused him, for I fell out with him yesterday, and will not see him again till he makes me amends ; and so I go to bed.
241 페이지 - After his trial, the jury brought him in not guilty, although they had been culled with the utmost industry ; the chief justice sent them back nine times, and kept them eleven hours ; until being perfectly tired out, they were forced to leave the matter to the mercy of the judge, by what they call a special verdict.
286 페이지 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.