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Pagina 15
... leave to think this circumstance * Sir Robert Walpole , and his brother Horace . - B . † A rectory in Berkshire . - B . It is honourable to Bolingbroke , that of all the Dean's great and powerful friends , he appeared , while in office ...
... leave to think this circumstance * Sir Robert Walpole , and his brother Horace . - B . † A rectory in Berkshire . - B . It is honourable to Bolingbroke , that of all the Dean's great and powerful friends , he appeared , while in office ...
Pagina 23
... leave you to your wine . * Many thanks for your drum I wish to receive your congratulations for the other boy , you may believe . * It would appear that Swift , himself naturally hospitable until age and disease altered his temper , did ...
... leave you to your wine . * Many thanks for your drum I wish to receive your congratulations for the other boy , you may believe . * It would appear that Swift , himself naturally hospitable until age and disease altered his temper , did ...
Pagina 35
... leaving the Bath : I pray God you may have found success in that journey ; else I shall continue to think there is a fatality in all your lordship's undertakings , which only terminate in your own honour , and the good of the public ...
... leaving the Bath : I pray God you may have found success in that journey ; else I shall continue to think there is a fatality in all your lordship's undertakings , which only terminate in your own honour , and the good of the public ...
Pagina 37
... leave it without interest till I go to town , and shall then be at the same loss how to dispose of it as now . I have an intention to get more money next winter : but am prepared for disappointments , which I think it is very likely I ...
... leave it without interest till I go to town , and shall then be at the same loss how to dispose of it as now . I have an intention to get more money next winter : but am prepared for disappointments , which I think it is very likely I ...
Pagina 43
... leave it to the conduct of posterity . I would not consent to the proceeding on such a work in the manner I have seen our poor- house , and Dr. Steven's hospital , viz . , to have so ex- pensive a foundation laid , that the expense of ...
... leave it to the conduct of posterity . I would not consent to the proceeding on such a work in the manner I have seen our poor- house , and Dr. Steven's hospital , viz . , to have so ex- pensive a foundation laid , that the expense of ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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 ;
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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.