The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ...W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768 |
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... please them , and improve her own . A modeft youth said something new ; She plac'd it in the strongest view . All humble worth fhe ftrove to raise ; Wou'd not be prais'd , yet lov'd to praise . The learned met with free approach ...
... please them , and improve her own . A modeft youth said something new ; She plac'd it in the strongest view . All humble worth fhe ftrove to raise ; Wou'd not be prais'd , yet lov'd to praise . The learned met with free approach ...
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... please her swain , Talks in a high romantick ftrain ; Or whether he at last descends To like with less feraphick ends ; Or , to compound the bus'nefs , whether They temper love and books together ; Muft never to mankind be told , Nor ...
... please her swain , Talks in a high romantick ftrain ; Or whether he at last descends To like with less feraphick ends ; Or , to compound the bus'nefs , whether They temper love and books together ; Muft never to mankind be told , Nor ...
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... please . He spoke ; and presently he feels , His grazier's coat fall down his heels ; He fees , yet hardly can believe , About each arm a pudding - fleeve ; His waistcoat to a caffock grew , And both affum'd a fable hue But , being old ...
... please . He spoke ; and presently he feels , His grazier's coat fall down his heels ; He fees , yet hardly can believe , About each arm a pudding - fleeve ; His waistcoat to a caffock grew , And both affum'd a fable hue But , being old ...
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... please ; 60 “ I doubt not , if his lordship knew—— " And , mr . dean , one word from you ” - ' Tis ( let me fee ) three years and more ( October next it will be four ) Since Harley bid me first attend , And chofe me for an humble friend ...
... please ; 60 “ I doubt not , if his lordship knew—— " And , mr . dean , one word from you ” - ' Tis ( let me fee ) three years and more ( October next it will be four ) Since Harley bid me first attend , And chofe me for an humble friend ...
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... please , to blot it out ; And then , to heighten the difgrace , Clap his own nonsense in the place . Whoe'er expects to hold his part In fuch a book , and such a heart , If VERSES ON A LADY'S TABLE - BOOK . 69 If VERSES Verjes wrote on ...
... please , to blot it out ; And then , to heighten the difgrace , Clap his own nonsense in the place . Whoe'er expects to hold his part In fuch a book , and such a heart , If VERSES ON A LADY'S TABLE - BOOK . 69 If VERSES Verjes wrote on ...
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Page 148 - Tis but the funeral of the former year. Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear...
Page 72 - Then the Bell rung, and I went down to put my Lady to Bed, And, God knows, I thought my Money was as safe as my Maidenhead. So when I came up again, I found my Pocket feel very light, But when I search'd, and miss'd my Purse, Lord! I thought I should have sunk outright: Lord! Madam, says Mary, how d'ye do? Indeed...
Page 148 - See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot, Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot!
Page 39 - Having through all the village past, To a small cottage came at last, Where dwelt a good old honest ye'man, Call'd in the neighbourhood Philemon ; Who kindly did these saints invite In his poor hut to pass the night ; And then the hospitable...
Page 265 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE, Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY: His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Page 303 - tis a shocking sight, And he's engaged to-morrow night; My Lady Club will take it ill, If he should fail her at quadrille. He loved the Dean— (I lead a heart,) But dearest friends, they say, must part. His time was come: he ran his race; We hope he's in a better place.
Page 43 - what's this you tell us ? I hope you don't believe me jealous ? But yet, methinks, I feel it true ; And really yours is budding too : — Nay — now I cannot stir my foot ; It feels as if 'twere taking root.
Page 56 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Page 304 - To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme : His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste. I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.
Page 125 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...