The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 19A. Constable, 1814 |
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Pagina 4
... fear and trembling . I am not believed when I affirm I write to you with as much ease as to any correspondent I have ; for I know you are as much above criticising a letter of mine , as I should be below your notice , if I gave myself ...
... fear and trembling . I am not believed when I affirm I write to you with as much ease as to any correspondent I have ; for I know you are as much above criticising a letter of mine , as I should be below your notice , if I gave myself ...
Pagina 8
... I can prove by arithmetic , for then I was double their age , which now I am not . Pray put me out of fear as soon as you can , about that ugly report of your illness ; and let me know who this 8 EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE .
... I can prove by arithmetic , for then I was double their age , which now I am not . Pray put me out of fear as soon as you can , about that ugly report of your illness ; and let me know who this 8 EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE .
Pagina 11
... fear will find the addition , you hint , heavy ; for I could not get my imagination warmed to the same degree as in the former part . I hope you will supply what shall be wanting of * Theophilus Harrison , Esq . a young gentleman of ...
... fear will find the addition , you hint , heavy ; for I could not get my imagination warmed to the same degree as in the former part . I hope you will supply what shall be wanting of * Theophilus Harrison , Esq . a young gentleman of ...
Pagina 14
... fear the worst of that horrid treacherous distemper . I am , dear Sir , with all respect , Your most obedient and very humble servant , THOMAS SHERIDAN . I lost sixty - six pounds by a rogue who run off to Drumcor last year . TO MRS ...
... fear the worst of that horrid treacherous distemper . I am , dear Sir , with all respect , Your most obedient and very humble servant , THOMAS SHERIDAN . I lost sixty - six pounds by a rogue who run off to Drumcor last year . TO MRS ...
Pagina 33
... fear this letter may miscarry . SIR , " I beg that impertinent woman , who has unac- countably got your ear , may not interrupt you , while you read the encomium , and while you give it a touch of your brush ; for I fear the colours are ...
... fear this letter may miscarry . SIR , " I beg that impertinent woman , who has unac- countably got your ear , may not interrupt you , while you read the encomium , and while you give it a touch of your brush ; for I fear the colours are ...
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acquaintance Adieu affairs Alderman Barber answer assure believe Belturbet Cavan Clonmel Colrane compliments deafness Dean's Deane Swift deanery Deanery-House DEAR SIR desire Dr King DR SHERIDAN DR SWIFT Dublin Duke Dunkin England Esther Vanhomrigh Faulkner favour fear fortune friendship gentleman give hand happy hath hear heartily Hessy honour hope humble service Ireland kingdom Lady late leave let me know letter Lewis ling live London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Orrery Lord Oxford lord-lieutenant lordship MADAM MISS VANHOMRIGH Molkin NAVAN never obedient humble servant obliged person pleasure poem poor Pope pounds pounds sterling Pray present printed reason received respect RICHARDSON SAMUEL GERRARD sent sincere St Mary Hall St Patrick's sure tell thing THOMAS SHERIDAN thought tion told town trouble Whiteway William Dunkin wish writ write
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Pagina 456 - Clonmel, sole executors of this my last will and testament : And I do hereby revoke and make void all former and other wills and testaments by me...
Pagina 119 - 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.
Pagina 413 - ... and butter and a glass of ale, and at ten he goes to bed. Wine is a stranger, except a little I sent him, of which, one evening in two, we have a pint between us. His wife has been this month twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return these ten days. I never saw her, and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day, or walk, and do not speak as many words as I have now writ, in three days...
Pagina 424 - IF you write as you do, I shall come the seldomer, on purpose to be pleased with your letters, which I never look into without wondering how a brat who cannot read can possibly write so well.
Pagina 411 - ... since happened. But I am now fitter to look after willows, and to cut hedges, than to meddle with affairs of state. I must order one of the workmen to drive those cows out of my island, and make up the ditch again ; a work much more proper for a country vicar, than driving out factions, and fencing against them.
Pagina 17 - 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.
Pagina 345 - Pratt, to whom I am almost a domestic upon your account. I am convinced, that whatever Government come over, you will find all marks of kindness from any Parliament here, with respect to your employment ; the Tories contending with the Whigs which should speak best of you.
Pagina 410 - I staid but a fortnight in Dublin, very sick, and returned not one visit of a hundred that were made me ; but all to the Dean, and none to the Doctor. I am riding here for life ; and I think I am something better. I hate the thoughts of Dublin, and prefer a field-bed, and an earthen-floor, before the great house there, which they say is mine.