Swiftiana ...Charles Henry Wilson R. Phillips, 1804 |
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... seem to be of that kind which are easily formed , and the propriety of which we readily admit at the time we make them , but secretly never design to put them in practice . Had Swift done so , he certainly would have been a pleasanter ...
... seem to be of that kind which are easily formed , and the propriety of which we readily admit at the time we make them , but secretly never design to put them in practice . Had Swift done so , he certainly would have been a pleasanter ...
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... seems to have had a high estimation of the literary importance and merit of this class . He thus characterizes a true critic : " He is a sort of mechanic , set up with a stock and tools for trade at as little expence as a taylor , and ...
... seems to have had a high estimation of the literary importance and merit of this class . He thus characterizes a true critic : " He is a sort of mechanic , set up with a stock and tools for trade at as little expence as a taylor , and ...
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... seem to be what my friend Pope calls " an echo to the sense . ' " I am pleased , and proud , " answered Mac- gowran , " that it has afforded you any amusement : and when you , Sir , " addressing himself to the Dean , " put all the ...
... seem to be what my friend Pope calls " an echo to the sense . ' " I am pleased , and proud , " answered Mac- gowran , " that it has afforded you any amusement : and when you , Sir , " addressing himself to the Dean , " put all the ...
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... , and always behaved with the utmost respect . Those who knew Swift , took no offence at his bluntness of behaviour . It seems Queen Caroline did not , if we may It 28 SWIFTIANA . quite rusty, which being then the case, she ...
... , and always behaved with the utmost respect . Those who knew Swift , took no offence at his bluntness of behaviour . It seems Queen Caroline did not , if we may It 28 SWIFTIANA . quite rusty, which being then the case, she ...
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Charles Henry Wilson. It seems Queen Caroline did not , if we may credit his words in the verses on his own death . XVIII . SWIFT'S BEHAVIOUR AT TABLE . Swift's manner of entertaining his guests , and his behaviour at table , were ...
Charles Henry Wilson. It seems Queen Caroline did not , if we may credit his words in the verses on his own death . XVIII . SWIFT'S BEHAVIOUR AT TABLE . Swift's manner of entertaining his guests , and his behaviour at table , were ...
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Էջ 46 - As to parliaments, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made them annual, and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation until that ancient law were restored among us. For who sees not that, while such assemblies are permitted to have a longer duration, there grows up a commerce of corruption between the ministry and the deputies, wherein they both find their accounts, to the manifest danger of liberty ; which traffic would never answer the design nor...
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Էջ 46 - I ever abominated that scheme of politics (now about thirty years old) of setting up a monied interest in opposition to the landed. For I conceived, there could not be a truer maxim in our government than this, That the possessors of the soil are the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom.
Էջ 182 - But if you had supped with me, as in all reason you ought to have done, you must then have drank with me.
Էջ 182 - 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 45 - As to what is called a revolution principle, my opinion was this; that whenever those evils which usually attend and follow a violent change of government, were not in probability so pernicious as the grievance we suffer under a present power, then the public good will justify such a revolution.
Էջ 88 - I should not choose to be often seen in his company. But I know your affection for wherewith proceeds from your partiality to Dean Swift, whom I can often laugh with, whose style I can even approve, but surely can never admire. It has no harmony, no eloquence, no ornament, and not much correctness, whatever the English may imagine. Were not their literature still in a somewhat barbarous state, that author's place would not be so high among their classics.
Էջ 90 - And if, for an excuse, they pretend they will send for his body, let them know it is mine; and rather than send it, I will take up the bones, and make of it a skeleton, and put it in my register office, to be a memorial of their baseness to all posterity.
Էջ 50 - I'll drink it myself. Why, take you, you are wiser than a paltry curate whom I asked to dine with me a few days ago ; for upon my making the same speech to him, he said, he did not understand such usage, and so walked off without his dinner. By the same token, I told the gentleman who recommended him to me, that the fellow was a blockhead, and I had done with him."— SHERIDAN'S Life of Swift.
Էջ 45 - I had likewise in those days a mortal antipathy against standing armies in times of peace. Because I always took standing armies to be only servants hired by the master of the family for keeping his own children in slavery...