The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published, Том 9Bickers, 1883 |
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... husband ; for they took special care I should never be alone . As soon as her back was turned , the little misses ran backward and forward every moment , and constantly as they came in , or went out , made a curtsey directly at me ...
... husband ; for they took special care I should never be alone . As soon as her back was turned , the little misses ran backward and forward every moment , and constantly as they came in , or went out , made a curtsey directly at me ...
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... more pique than com- placence . Much regard is expressed for her parents and husband ; but as to herself , there is only a distant prospect held forth , that always borne an entire friendship to your father and mother.
... more pique than com- placence . Much regard is expressed for her parents and husband ; but as to herself , there is only a distant prospect held forth , that always borne an entire friendship to your father and mother.
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... husband has been , for some years past , my particular favourite . I have long wished you might come together , because I hoped that , from the goodness of your disposition , and by following the counsel of wise friends , you might in ...
... husband has been , for some years past , my particular favourite . I have long wished you might come together , because I hoped that , from the goodness of your disposition , and by following the counsel of wise friends , you might in ...
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... husband , was all but a countenance and constraint upon their nature : whereas , I suppose , if the votes of wise men were gathered , a very great majority would be in favour of those ladies , who , after they were entered into that ...
... husband , was all but a countenance and constraint upon their nature : whereas , I suppose , if the votes of wise men were gathered , a very great majority would be in favour of those ladies , who , after they were entered into that ...
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... husbands are gone a journey , must have a letter every post , upon pain of fits and hysterics ; and a day must be fixed for their return home , without the least allowance for business , or sickness , or accidents , or weather : upon ...
... husbands are gone a journey , must have a letter every post , upon pain of fits and hysterics ; and a day must be fixed for their return home , without the least allowance for business , or sickness , or accidents , or weather : upon ...
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Стр. 293 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Стр. 118 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, (all covered with powder,) that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the...
Стр. 118 - THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to...
Стр. 266 - This day, being Sunday, January 28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person ever was blessed with.
Стр. 353 - But every single character in Shakespeare is as much an individual, as those in life itself; it is as impossible to find any two alike; and such as from their relation or affinity in any respect appear most to be twins, will upon comparison be found remarkably distinct.
Стр. 353 - ... had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the persons, I believe one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker.
Стр. 215 - Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Стр. 329 - A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF GENTEEL AND INGENIOUS CONVERSATION, ACCORDING TO THE MOST POLITE MODE AND METHOD, NOW USED AT COURT, AND IN THE BEST COMPANIES OF ENGLAND.
Стр. 214 - The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.
Стр. 40 - But instead of giving you a list of the late refinements crept into our language, I here send you the copy of a letter I received some time ago from a most accomplished person in this way of writing, upon which I shall make some remarks. It is in these terms. "'SiR, "'I cou'dnt get the things you sent for all about Town. — I thot to ha come down myself, and then I'd ha' broufum; but I han't don't, and I believe I can't do't, that's pozz.