The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 17A. Constable, 1814 - English literature |
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The Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 5 of 19: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ... Walter Scott No preview available - 2015 |
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The Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 19 of 19: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ... Walter Scott No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
a-year 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 endeavour England esteem expect favour fear fortune friendship Gay's giddiness give grace Gulliver Gulliver's Travels hand hath hear honour hope Houyhnhnms Howard humble servant humour Ireland John Gay king kingdom lady late letter live London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Carteret lord-lieutenant MADAM mention monsieur never obedient obliged Oxford person pleased pleasure Pope Pray present princess Princess of Wales printed Pulteney queen Queen Caroline reason received sent Sir Robert Walpole soon SWIFT tell thank thing thought told town Twickenham verses WARTON wish Worrall writ write
Popular passages
Page 276 - I ought to think, that 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.
Page 40 - I have got materials toward a treatise, proving the falsity of that definition, animal rationale, and to show it should be only rationis capax. 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...
Page 282 - All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong is no great matter. And so the reputation of wit and great learning does the office of a blue riband or a coach and six.
Page 39 - 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.
Page 225 - ... is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him...
Page 253 - Here is an ingenious good-humoured Physician, a fine gentleman, an excellent scholar, easy in his fortunes, kind to every body, hath abundance of friends, entertains them often and liberally, they pass the evening with him at cards, with plenty of good meat and wine, eight or a dozen together ; he loves them all, and they him. He has twenty of these at command ; if one of them dies, it is no more than, Poor Tom...
Page 229 - God bless you, whose great genius had not so transported you as to leave you to the courtesy of mankind ; for wealth is liberty, and liberty is a blessing fittest for a philosopher, and Gay is a slave just by two thousand pounds too little, and Horace was of my mind, and let my Lord contradict him if he dares.
Page 107 - I tell you freely, the part of the projectors is the least brilliant. Lewis grumbles a little at it, and says he wants the key to it, and is daily refining.
Page 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 headland sown with wheat?
Page 81 - I think there is not a greater folly than that of entering into too strict and particular a friendship, with the loss of which a man must be absolutely miserable ; but especially at an age when it is too late to engage in a new friendship. Besides, this was a person of my own rearing and instructing from childhood ; who excelled in every good quality that can possibly accomplish a human creature.