SwiftHarper, 1901 - 205 من الصفحات |
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Addison admit Æsop affection afterwards amused Arbuthnot attack became Berkeley Bolingbroke Brobdingnag BROTHERS called Church Cloth contempt Dean Deane Swift deanery death declares Delany Dublin Duchess Duchess of Somerset Edges and Gilt England English Esther Johnson famous fancy feeling Gilt Top give Gulliver Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels halfpence Harley hated hope Houyhnhnms humour interest Ireland Irish Jacobite John Jonathan Swift Kilroot King Lady Laracor later less letter living London Lord Marlborough marriage ment mind ministers ministry misanthropy Moor Park nature never Orrery Oxford pamphlet party passion phrase poem political poor Pope Post 8vo preferment prejudices principles published Queen remarkable replied resentment satire says Swift seems sent Sheridan Somers Steele Stella Swift took tells Temple Temple's thought tion Tisdall Tom Swift Tories truth Uncut Edges utterance Vanessa Whig junto Whiggism Whigs whilst wrath write
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الصفحة 201 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month ; and Gay A week; and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry, I'm sorry; but we all must die.
الصفحة 8 - Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
الصفحة 158 - It is time for me to have done with the world ; and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in a hole.
الصفحة 202 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
الصفحة 71 - Swift ; A clergyman of special note For shunning those of his own coat ; Which made his brethren of the gown Take care betimes to run him down...
الصفحة 95 - Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs ; Or, " Have you nothing new to-day From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay?" Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
الصفحة 101 - He was soliciting the earl of Arran to speak to his brother the duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay fees.
الصفحة 38 - It is true, indeed, that these animals, which are vulgarly called suits of clothes, or dresses, do according to certain compositions receive different appellations. If one' of them be trimmed up with a gold chain, and a red gown, and a white rod, and a great horse, it is called a...
الصفحة 95 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend : Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that ; As, 'What's o'clock?
الصفحة 102 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.