The Life of Jonathan Swift: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen2Macmillan, 1894 - 4 páginas |
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The Life of Jonathan Swift: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen2 Sir Henry Craik Vista completa - 1894 |
The Life of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen2 Sir Henry Craik Vista completa - 1894 |
The Life of Jonathan Swift: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen2 Sir Henry Craik Vista completa - 1894 |
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accepted amongst Arbuthnot Archbishop Bishop Bishop of Clogher Bolingbroke Brobdingnag called character Church coinage contempt Countess of Suffolk cynicism Deane Swift Deanery death Delany Delany's doubt Drapier Drapier's letters Dublin edition England English Esther Johnson evidence fancied favour fear feeling fierce friends friendship genius give gloom Government Gulliver hand Holyhead honour hopes Houyhnhnms humour ill-health indignation interest Ireland Irish Jacobite JONATHAN SWIFT King kingdom knew Lady letter literary lived London Lord Carteret Lord Orrery marriage Matthew Pilkington memory ment misanthropy never party passed passion Patrick's perhaps person Pilkington poem political Pope's published reason refused sarcasm satire says scarcely scheme Scott seems Sheridan Sir William Temple Stella story struggle Swift to Pope Swift's later tells thought tion told Tory truth Vanessa verses Walpole Walpole's Whig Whiteway words writes wrote
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Página 75 - For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed, is the very definition of slavery. But in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.
Página 149 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh...
Página 56 - I do profess without affectation, that your kind opinion of me as a patriot, since you call it so, is what I do not deserve; because what I do is owing to perfect rage and resentment, and the mortifying sight of slavery, folly, and baseness about me, among which I am forced to live.
Página 30 - To like with less seraphic ends ; Or, to compound the business, whether They temper love and books together ; Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold.
Página 253 - I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I caB say is, that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few; few and miserable they must be.
Página 154 - 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.
Página 195 - BETTER we all were in our graves, Than live in slavery to slaves ; Worse than the anarchy at sea, Where fishes on each other prey...
Página 110 - I look upon this to be the greatest event that can ever happen to me; but all my preparations will not suffice to make me bear it like a philosopher, nor altogether like a Christian.
Página 181 - ... abundance of friends, entertains them. often and liberally, they pass the evening with him at cards, with plenty of good meat and wine, eight or a dozen together ; he loves them all, and they him.
Página 203 - If he should travel about the country, he would have hecatombs of roasted oxen sacrificed to him.