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Pagina 3
... appears very easy , I find it is the most difficult of any that I ever undertook . After I have invented one fable , and finished it , I despair of finding out another ; but I have a moral or two more , which I wish to write . upon . I ...
... appears very easy , I find it is the most difficult of any that I ever undertook . After I have invented one fable , and finished it , I despair of finding out another ; but I have a moral or two more , which I wish to write . upon . I ...
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... appears to my eyes a very dirty road , you would pick out the cleanest stages you can ; and believe me to be , with much esteem , Sir , Your most obedient humble servant , J. S. FROM LADY CATHERINE JONES . June 15 , 1732 . THE return of ...
... appears to my eyes a very dirty road , you would pick out the cleanest stages you can ; and believe me to be , with much esteem , Sir , Your most obedient humble servant , J. S. FROM LADY CATHERINE JONES . June 15 , 1732 . THE return of ...
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... appear in the presence of Mr. Pope , Mr. Gay , and others , in which I will venture to befriend him . You are not to tell me of prior engagements ; because I have some title , as an old acquaintance , to expect a favour from you ...
... appear in the presence of Mr. Pope , Mr. Gay , and others , in which I will venture to befriend him . You are not to tell me of prior engagements ; because I have some title , as an old acquaintance , to expect a favour from you ...
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... appear that Swift , himself naturally hospitable until age and disease altered his temper , did not altogether admire the parsimony of Pope , who used to desert his guests soon after supper , with a habitual expression , " Gentlemen , I ...
... appear that Swift , himself naturally hospitable until age and disease altered his temper , did not altogether admire the parsimony of Pope , who used to desert his guests soon after supper , with a habitual expression , " Gentlemen , I ...
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... appear very negligent . I doubt not but you think me unworthy of the share ( you once told me ) I had in your heart . I am yet vain enough to think I deserve it better than all those flirting girls you coquet with . I will not yield ...
... appear very negligent . I doubt not but you think me unworthy of the share ( you once told me ) I had in your heart . I am yet vain enough to think I deserve it better than all those flirting girls you coquet with . I will not yield ...
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acquaintance Adieu affair Amesbury answer Arbuthnot assure Barber believe Bishop Bishop of Clogher Carteret commands court Dean DEAR SIR death Delany desire Dublin duchess Duke England esteem expect favour fear flatter friends friendship gentleman give glad gout grace happy hear heard heartily honour hope humble service Ireland JOHN BARBER kind kingdom LADY BETTY GERMAIN Lady Worsley late least letter ling live London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Carteret Lord Orrery lordship Matthew Pilkington MISS KELLY never obedient humble servant obliged occasion Orrery Patrick's PENDARVES person Pilkington pleased pleasure poem poor Pope pounds pray prebendary printed reason received recommend shew sincere Sir Robert Walpole soon sorry sure Swift tell thanks thing THOMAS SHERIDAN thought tion told town trouble Twickenham verses William Fownes wine wish writ write
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Pagina 413 - Man," of which he has given this account to Dr. Swift. " March 25, 1736. " If ever I write any more Epistles in verse, one of them shall be addressed to you. I have long concerted it, and begun it ; but I would make what bears your name as finished as my last work ought to be, that is to say, more finished than any of the rest. The subject is large, and will divide into four Epistles, which naturally follow the 'Essay on Man ;
Pagina 403 - Christian, particularly the latter, wherein hardly one in a million of us heretics can equal you. If you are well recovered, you ought to be reproached for not putting me especially out of pain, who could not bear the loss of you ; although we must be...
Pagina 23 - Remember we are to be good neighbors as well as neighbors ; and if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Pagina 69 - I had often postscripts from her in our friend's letters to me, and her part was sometimes longer than his, and they made up a great part of the little happiness I could have here. This was the more generous, because I never saw her since she was a girl of five years old, nor did I envy poor Mr. Gay for any thing so much as being a domestic friend to such a lady. I desire you will uever fail to send me a particular account of your health. I dare hardly inquire about Mrs. Pope...
Pagina 150 - My ailments are such that I really believe a sea-sickness (considering the oppression of colical pains, and the great weakness of my breast) would kill me...
Pagina 79 - I am preparing also for my own; and have nothing so much at heart, as to shew the silly world that men of Wit, or even Poets, may be the most moral of mankind. A few loose things sometimes fall from them, by which censorious fools judge as ill of them, as possibly they can, for their own comfort: and indeed, when such unguarded and trifling Jeux d...
Pagina 107 - When I was of your age, I thought every day of death, but now every minute ; and a continual giddy diforder more or lefs is a greater addition than that of my years.
Pagina 96 - Yoc say truly, that death is only terrible to us as it separates us from those we love, but I really think those have the worst of it who are left by us, if we are true friends. I have felt more (I fancy) in the loss of Mr Gay, than I...
Pagina 174 - Adieu, dear Sir, may health attend your years, and then may many years be added to you. PS I am...
Pagina 414 - I am as much a better gardener, as I am a worse poet, than when you saw me ; but gardening is near akin to philosophy, for Tully says, agricultura proximo, sapientue.