Lives of wits and humourists, Band 1R. Bentley, 1862 |
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... STELLA ? WHO WAS VARINA ? • SWIFT'S PREFERMENT 11 12 • 14 SWIFT'S JOURNEY TO LARACOR SWIFT AT HIS VICARAGE 15 · 16 STELLA REMOVES TO IRELAND 17 SWIFT'S FIRST POLITICAL PAMPHLET 17 SWIFT , A WHIG 18 " THE TALE OF A TUB 19 · TRACTS , 1708 ...
... STELLA ? WHO WAS VARINA ? • SWIFT'S PREFERMENT 11 12 • 14 SWIFT'S JOURNEY TO LARACOR SWIFT AT HIS VICARAGE 15 · 16 STELLA REMOVES TO IRELAND 17 SWIFT'S FIRST POLITICAL PAMPHLET 17 SWIFT , A WHIG 18 " THE TALE OF A TUB 19 · TRACTS , 1708 ...
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... STELLA TO SWIFT . • · SWIFT'S ATTACHMENT TO THE EARL OF OXFORD DRAPIER'S LETTERS • THE DEAN VERY POPULAR GULLIVER'S TRAVELS BARGAINING WITH THE PUBLISHERS THE BEGGAR'S OPERA " " THE DEAN LAST IN ENGLAND SWIFT PARTS FROM POPE DEATH OF STELLA ...
... STELLA TO SWIFT . • · SWIFT'S ATTACHMENT TO THE EARL OF OXFORD DRAPIER'S LETTERS • THE DEAN VERY POPULAR GULLIVER'S TRAVELS BARGAINING WITH THE PUBLISHERS THE BEGGAR'S OPERA " " THE DEAN LAST IN ENGLAND SWIFT PARTS FROM POPE DEATH OF STELLA ...
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... STELLA . 115 THE DEAN SHAVING · . 117 SWIFT AND MACAULAY - A PARALLEL . 117 CHARACTER OF LORD OXFORD THE DEAN AND MISS BARTON GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF SWIFT • . 118 . 119 . 120 SIR RICHARD STEELE .. BIRTH OF STEELE - HIS ANCESTRY ...
... STELLA . 115 THE DEAN SHAVING · . 117 SWIFT AND MACAULAY - A PARALLEL . 117 CHARACTER OF LORD OXFORD THE DEAN AND MISS BARTON GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF SWIFT • . 118 . 119 . 120 SIR RICHARD STEELE .. BIRTH OF STEELE - HIS ANCESTRY ...
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... Stella , he says : " Don't you remember how I used to be in pain , when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days , and I used to suspect a hundred reasons ? I have plucked up my spirit since then ...
... Stella , he says : " Don't you remember how I used to be in pain , when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days , and I used to suspect a hundred reasons ? I have plucked up my spirit since then ...
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... STELLA ? Esther Johnson - who purchased , by a life of prolonged hopes and disappointed affection , a poetical immortality under the name of Stella ( the Star . ) It was during Swift's second residence at Moor Park that the acquaintance ...
... STELLA ? Esther Johnson - who purchased , by a life of prolonged hopes and disappointed affection , a poetical immortality under the name of Stella ( the Star . ) It was during Swift's second residence at Moor Park that the acquaintance ...
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Seite 48 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Seite 141 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Seite 78 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Seite 331 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Seite 281 - THE wretch, condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Seite 299 - OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH— A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn; Of all the passions, Whether smiles were to be moved or tears, A powerful yet gentle master; In genius, sublime, vivid, versatile, merits have long since been fully discussed, and their station in the scale of literary merit permanently established.
Seite 36 - He talked to the son of Dr. Davenant, to be sent abroad, and took out his pocket-book and wrote down several things as memoranda, to do for him. He turned to the fire, and took out his gold watch, and telling him the time of the day, complained it was very late. A gentleman said, ' he was too fast.' ' How can I help it,' said the Doctor, ' if the Courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?
Seite 125 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again." She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport ; which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Seite 116 - The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both...
Seite 208 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie, and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.