The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in England, Scotland, and the United States of AmericaSmith, Elder and Company, 1853 - Počet stran: 322 |
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... and of a good English family of clergymen , ' Swift was born in Dublin in 1667 , seven 1 He was from a younger branch of the Swifts of Yorkshire . His months after the death of his father , who had 2 ૭ ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
... and of a good English family of clergymen , ' Swift was born in Dublin in 1667 , seven 1 He was from a younger branch of the Swifts of Yorkshire . His months after the death of his father , who had 2 ૭ ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
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... father , who had come to practise there as a lawyer . The boy went to school at Kilkenny , and afterwards to Trinity College , Dublin , where he got a degree with difficulty , and was wild , and witty , and poor . In 1688 , by the ...
... father , who had come to practise there as a lawyer . The boy went to school at Kilkenny , and afterwards to Trinity College , Dublin , where he got a degree with difficulty , and was wild , and witty , and poor . In 1688 , by the ...
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... father of Richard Brinsley , and son of that good - natured , clever , Irish , Dr. Thomas Sheridan , Swift's intimate , who lost his chaplaincy by so unluckily choosing for a text on the king's birthday , " Sufficient for the day is the ...
... father of Richard Brinsley , and son of that good - natured , clever , Irish , Dr. Thomas Sheridan , Swift's intimate , who lost his chaplaincy by so unluckily choosing for a text on the king's birthday , " Sufficient for the day is the ...
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... father comes from an old Yorkshire family , and his mother from an old Leicestershire one ! 1 " The style of his conversation was very much of a piece with that of his writings , concise and clear and strong . Being one day at a ...
... father comes from an old Yorkshire family , and his mother from an old Leicestershire one ! 1 " The style of his conversation was very much of a piece with that of his writings , concise and clear and strong . Being one day at a ...
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... father in the garden while a boy . He remembered the unfortunate Vanessa well ; and his account of her corresponded with the usual description of her person , especially as to her embonpoint . He said she went seldom abroad , and saw ...
... father in the garden while a boy . He remembered the unfortunate Vanessa well ; and his account of her corresponded with the usual description of her person , especially as to her embonpoint . He said she went seldom abroad , and saw ...
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Strana 34 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Strana 147 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Strana 297 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Strana 217 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Strana 311 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband our life's taper at the close And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Strana 312 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
Strana 216 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus
Strana 100 - I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, 'till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Strana 149 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Strana 93 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.