Irish Wit and Humor: Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'ConnellJ. A. McGee, 1872 - 239 էջ |
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... walking to riding , and all agreed once to walk down to Lord Burlington's about twelve miles from town . It was Swift's custom in whatever company he might visit to travel , to endeavor to procure the best bed for him- self . To secure ...
... walking to riding , and all agreed once to walk down to Lord Burlington's about twelve miles from town . It was Swift's custom in whatever company he might visit to travel , to endeavor to procure the best bed for him- self . To secure ...
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... walk past during the auction just as a pen of poultry had been put up . Roger bid for them , and was overbid by a farmer of the name of Hatch . " What , Roger , won't you buy the poultry ? " exclaimed Swift . " No , sir , " said Roger ...
... walk past during the auction just as a pen of poultry had been put up . Roger bid for them , and was overbid by a farmer of the name of Hatch . " What , Roger , won't you buy the poultry ? " exclaimed Swift . " No , sir , " said Roger ...
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... walking up and down the hall in great agitation . The doctor bade him not be uneasy , as he would try to pacify the dean , so that he should continue in his place . " That is not what vexes me , ” replied Robert , " though to be sure I ...
... walking up and down the hall in great agitation . The doctor bade him not be uneasy , as he would try to pacify the dean , so that he should continue in his place . " That is not what vexes me , ” replied Robert , " though to be sure I ...
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... walk to a little place which Lord Bathurst had , about eleven miles from London . Swift , remarkable for being an old traveller , and for get- ting possession of the best rooms and warmest beds , pretended , when they were about half ...
... walk to a little place which Lord Bathurst had , about eleven miles from London . Swift , remarkable for being an old traveller , and for get- ting possession of the best rooms and warmest beds , pretended , when they were about half ...
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... walks abroad ; the demagogue goes forth ; the public eye is upon him ; he frets his busy hour upon the stage ; but soon either weariness , or bribe , or punishment , or disappointment , bears him down , or drives him off , and he ...
... walks abroad ; the demagogue goes forth ; the public eye is upon him ; he frets his busy hour upon the stage ; but soon either weariness , or bribe , or punishment , or disappointment , bears him down , or drives him off , and he ...
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Էջ 31 - Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings — tarts, a shilling : but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket? — 'No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Էջ 37 - THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYLE'S MEDITATIONS. '""PHIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying •*- in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest ; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs ; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk...
Էջ 46 - Tis a cheese, which by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homelier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best.
Էջ 38 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs (all covered with powder), that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, though the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity.
Էջ 111 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation.
Էջ 43 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Էջ 31 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening, Gay and I went to see him: you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in, 'Heyday, gentlemen...
Էջ 128 - I speak not now of the public proclamation of informers, with a promise of secrecy and of extravagant reward; I speak not of the fate of those horrid wretches who have been so often transferred from the table to the dock, and from the dock to the pillory ; I speak of what your own eyes have seen day after day...
Էջ 104 - Britain, a printer has been gravely found guilty of a libel, for publishing those resolutions, to which the present minister of that kingdom had actually subscribed his name ? To what other cause can you ascribe, what in my mind is still more astonishing, in such a country as Scotland, a nation cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty, and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winning her eagle flight against...
Էջ 39 - ... with all his faults, he sets up to be a universal reformer and corrector of abuses, a remover of grievances, rakes into every slut's corner of nature, bringing hidden corruption to the light, and raises a mighty dust where there was none before; sharing deeply all the while in the very same pollutions he pretends to sweep away...