The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Volume 19W. Durell, 1813 |
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Page 203 - I have the ambition, and it is very earnest as well as in haste, to have one epistle inscribed to me while I am alive, and you just in the time when wit and wisdom are in the height. I must once more repeat Cicero's desire to a friend, orna me.
Page 276 - Of the Extent and Limits of Human Reason and Science. 2. A View of the useful and therefore attainable, and of the unuseful and therefore unattainable, Arts. 3. Of the Nature, Ends, Application, and Use of different Capacities. 4. Of the Use of Learning, of the Science, of the World, and of Wit. It will conclude with a satire against the Misapplication of all these, exemplified by Pictures, Characters, and Examples.
Page 103 - I am at present in the 35 case of a man that was almost in harbour, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of going to a good place, and an absolute certainty of leaving a very bad one. Not that I have any particular disgust at the world; for I have as great comfort in my own family and from the kindness of my friends as any man; but 40 the world, in the main, displeases me, and I have too true a presentiment of calamities that are to befall my country.
Page 268 - I neither visit nor am acquainted with any lord, temporal or spiritual, in the whole kingdom ; ' nor am able to do the least good office to the most deserving man, except what I can dispose of in my own cathedral upon a vacancy. What has sunk my spirits more than even years and sickness, is reflecting on the most execrable corruptions that run through every branch of public management.
Page 48 - ... of the honour it had received by entertaining so illustrious a guest, it burst with pride. My Lord Bathurst has greatly improved the wood house, which you may remember but a cottage, not a bit better than an Irish cabin. It is now a venerable castle, and has been taken by an antiquarian for one of King Arthur's, " with thicket overgrown grotesque and wild.
Page 18 - I am one of the governors of all the hackney coaches, carts, and carriages, round this town, who dare not insult me, like your rascally waggoners or coachmen, but give me the way ; nor is there one lord or squire for a hundred of yours, to turn me out of the road, or run over me with their coaches and six.
Page 277 - I have more fruit-trees and kitchen-garden than you have any thought of: nay, I have good melons and pine-apples of my own growth.
Page 266 - What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them, as I formerly was, which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not.
Page 102 - FRIEND, — You have no reason to put me among the rest of your forgetful friends, for I wrote two long letters to you, to which I never received one word of answer. The first was about your health ; the last I sent a great while ago, by one De la Mar.
Page 174 - ... although they sometimes wanted true spelling and good sense, and some others whose writers are dead : for I live like a monk, and hate to forget my departed friends. Yet I am sometimes too nice ; for I burnt all my lord * * * *'s letters, upon receiving one where he had used these words to me, " All I pretend to is a great deal of "sincerity.