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Pagina xxi
... hope de- ferred , " and bitter disappointment , she died prematurely in 1728 . The conduct of Swift toward these ill - fated women , however it may be accounted for , or extenuated , will always remain a blot upon his memory in spite of ...
... hope de- ferred , " and bitter disappointment , she died prematurely in 1728 . The conduct of Swift toward these ill - fated women , however it may be accounted for , or extenuated , will always remain a blot upon his memory in spite of ...
Pagina 33
... noble , are what actu- ate all your life and actions ; and I hope you will forgive me when I have an ambition this book may be placed in the library of so good a judge of the management of your snuff - box , with the 3 ( 33 ) THE ...
... noble , are what actu- ate all your life and actions ; and I hope you will forgive me when I have an ambition this book may be placed in the library of so good a judge of the management of your snuff - box , with the 3 ( 33 ) THE ...
Pagina 34
... hope your grace will forgive my endeavor to pre- serve this work from oblivion , by affixing to it your memorable name , I shall not here presume to mention the illus- trious passages of your life , which are celebrated by the whole age ...
... hope your grace will forgive my endeavor to pre- serve this work from oblivion , by affixing to it your memorable name , I shall not here presume to mention the illus- trious passages of your life , which are celebrated by the whole age ...
Pagina 35
... hope , excuse this pre - dancing , has been used by you as lower arts ; and sumption ; but the justice I , as a Spectator , owe your character , places me above the want of an excuse . Candor and openness of heart , which shine in all ...
... hope , excuse this pre - dancing , has been used by you as lower arts ; and sumption ; but the justice I , as a Spectator , owe your character , places me above the want of an excuse . Candor and openness of heart , which shine in all ...
Pagina 36
... hope to make the figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his spe- cies . It is therefore no wonder we see such mul- titudes of aspiring young men fall short of you in all these beauties of your character , notwithstand- ing ...
... hope to make the figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his spe- cies . It is therefore no wonder we see such mul- titudes of aspiring young men fall short of you in all these beauties of your character , notwithstand- ing ...
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Pagina 209 - I see multitudes of people passing over it," said I, " and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.' As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and, upon...
Pagina 152 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependant.
Pagina 209 - Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles that glittered in their eyes and danced before them, but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them their footing failed and down they sunk.
Pagina 209 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it 'from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches." "These," said the genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Pagina 169 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Pagina 209 - Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.
Pagina 112 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Pagina 63 - Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another: the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them but that they were born and that they died.
Pagina 103 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Pagina 152 - ... he has been useless for several years. I could not but observe with a great deal of pleasure, the joy that appeared in the countenances of these ancient domestics upon my friend's arrival at his country-seat.