Epistolary correspondence. v. 19. Epistolary correspondence. Appendix to the original correspondence between Dean Swift and his friends. Correspondence between Swift and Miss VanhomrighArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814 |
المحتوى
| 18 | |
| 25 | |
| 63 | |
| 66 | |
| 96 | |
| 102 | |
| 114 | |
| 124 | |
| 230 | |
| 236 | |
| 246 | |
| 267 | |
| 277 | |
| 286 | |
| 298 | |
| 314 | |
| 137 | |
| 150 | |
| 187 | |
| 194 | |
| 202 | |
| 216 | |
| 323 | |
| 329 | |
| 342 | |
| 357 | |
| 363 | |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
acquaintance Adieu affairs Amesbury answer Beggar's Opera believe Carteret COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK court Dawley deafness Dean Dean's deanery DEAR SIR desire Dr Arbuthnot Dr Delany DR SHERIDAN Dublin Duchess of Queensberry Duke Dunciad England esteem expect favour fear fortune friendship Gay's giddiness give glad grace Gulliver Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels hand hath hear honour hope Houyhnhnms Howard humble servant humour Ireland j'ai John Gay king kingdom lady leave letter live London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Carteret lord-lieutenant MADAM mention monsieur never obedient obliged person pleased pleasure Pope pounds Pray present prince princess Princess of Wales printed Pulteney queen reason received sent Sir Robert Walpole soon SWIFT tell thank thing thought told town Twickenham verses VOLTAIRE WARTON wish Worrall writ write
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 44 - Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are by Whigs — and generally by Tories too. Because he had humour, he was supposed to have dealt with Dr. Swift, in like manner as when any one had learning formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil...
الصفحة 188 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
الصفحة 40 - Upon this great foundation of misanthropy (though not in Timon's manner) the whole building of my travels is erected ; and I never will have peace of mind till all honest men are of my opinion...
الصفحة 276 - Pray, my lord, how are the gardens ? have you taken down the mount, and removed the yew hedges ? Have you not bad weather for the spring corn ? Has Mr. Pope gone farther in his Ethic Poems ?* and is the head-land sown with wheat ? and what says Polybius ? and how does my Lord St.
الصفحة 191 - Have you dedicated your opera, and got the usual dedication fee of twenty guineas ? How is the doctor ? does he not chide that you never called upon him for hints ? Is my Lord Bolingbroke, at the moment I am writing, a planter, a philosopher, or a writer ? Is Mr. Pulteney in...
الصفحة 225 - ... admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him...
الصفحة 291 - Some comedy, a great deal of tragedy, and the whole interspersed with scenes of Harlequin, Scaramouch, and Dr Baloardo, the prototype of your hero Oxford.
الصفحة 39 - I have employed my time (besides ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my ' Travels ' [Gulliver's], in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended for the press when the world shall deserve them, or rather, when a printer shall be found brave enough to venture his ears.
الصفحة 226 - Dunciad ' is going to be printed in all pomp, with the inscription, which makes me proudest. It will be attended with proeme, prolegomena, testimonia scriptorum, index authorum, and notes variorum. As to the latter, I desire you to read over the text, and make a few in any way you like best ; whether dry raillery, upon the style and way of commenting of trivial critics ; or humorous, upon the authors in the poem ; or historical, of persons, places, times ; or explanatory, or collecting the parallel...
الصفحة 276 - 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.