The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Svazek 151814 |
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Strana 150 - But if you will give us a barrack, my dear, The captain, I'm sure, will always come here : I then shall not value his deanship a straw, For the captain, I warrant, will keep him in awe ; Or should he pretend to be brisk and alert, Will tell him that chaplains should not be so pert ; That men of his coat should be minding their prayers, And not among ladies to give themselves airs.
Strana 105 - Saunders, said I, I would rather than a quart of ale He would come into our kitchen, and I would pin a dish-clout to his tail. And now I must go and get Saunders to direct this letter ; For I write but a sad scrawl ; but my sister Marget, she writes better.* Well, but I must run and make the bed, before my master comes from prayers ; And see now, it strikes ten, and I hear him coming up stairs...
Strana 153 - I'm afraid You cast a sheep's eye on her ladyship's maid: I wish she would lend you her pretty white hand In mending your cassock, and smoothing your band...
Strana 55 - The rogue too vicious and too prophane is. I went in vain to look for Eupolis Down in the strand ,* just where the New Pole is ; For I can tell you one thing, that I can, You will not find it in the Vatican.
Strana 179 - And so we saw him at our gate Three days before he was expected. After a week, a month, a quarter, And day succeeding after day, Says not a word of his departure, Though not a soul would have him stay.
Strana 19 - God's creation, But sprung, (and I this truth maintain,) Like Pallas, from my father's brain. And after all, I chiefly owe My beauty to the shades below.
Strana 259 - I find nothing but the good words and wishes of a decayed ministry, whose lives and mine will probably wear out before they can serve either my little hopes, or their own ambition.
Strana 104 - Mary," said he one day, as I was mending my master's stocking, " My master is so fond of that minister that keeps the school : I thought my master a wise man, but that man makes him a fool.
Strana 7 - To me he chiefly gives in Trust To please his Malice, or his Lust. From me no Secret he can hide; I see his Vanity and Pride: And my Delight is to expose His Follies to his greatest Foes. All Languages I can command, Yet not a Word I understand. Without my Aid, the best Divine In Learning would not know a Line: The Lawyer must forget his Pleading, The Scholar could not shew his Reading.
Strana 265 - Kensington together for that purpose, and came back immediately, and went together into the house of commons. Mr. St. John designs to lay down in a few days, as a friend of his told me, though he advised him to the contrary ; and they talk that Mr.