The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory, Volume 6C. Bathurst, 1754 |
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... Duke upon duke . An excellent new ballad . To the tune of Chevy Chace . * Fragment of a fatire . * Macer . * Sylvia , a fragment . * Artemifia . * Phryne . On Mrs. Biddy Floyd . * 114 121 124 125 127 128 129 Apollo outwitted . To the ...
... Duke upon duke . An excellent new ballad . To the tune of Chevy Chace . * Fragment of a fatire . * Macer . * Sylvia , a fragment . * Artemifia . * Phryne . On Mrs. Biddy Floyd . * 114 121 124 125 127 128 129 Apollo outwitted . To the ...
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... duke regent of France . Phillis : or , The progress of love . * Ay and No : a fable . The progrefs of poetry . The progress of beauty . Pethox the great . 187 189 191 195 197 201 * The lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the lofs of ...
... duke regent of France . Phillis : or , The progress of love . * Ay and No : a fable . The progrefs of poetry . The progress of beauty . Pethox the great . 187 189 191 195 197 201 * The lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the lofs of ...
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... duke of D --- . 266 * Epigram from the French . 267 ibid . Epitaph . Epigram , on the toafts of the kit - cat club , anno 1716 . • ibid . To a lady , with The temple of fame . 268 * Verfes to be placed under the picture of England's ...
... duke of D --- . 266 * Epigram from the French . 267 ibid . Epitaph . Epigram , on the toafts of the kit - cat club , anno 1716 . • ibid . To a lady , with The temple of fame . 268 * Verfes to be placed under the picture of England's ...
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... refers . Dic Ad cœnam veniat . Non fane credere Mæna ; Mirari fecum tacitus . 50 * Earl of Wharton , father to the duke of Wharton who died in France . 55 Swift seem'd to wonder what he meant , Nor Swift 50 AN ADDRESS TO THE.
... refers . Dic Ad cœnam veniat . Non fane credere Mæna ; Mirari fecum tacitus . 50 * Earl of Wharton , father to the duke of Wharton who died in France . 55 Swift seem'd to wonder what he meant , Nor Swift 50 AN ADDRESS TO THE.
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... duke . " I own , I'm pleas'd with this rebuke , 40 And take it kindly meant to fhow What I defire the world fhould know . I get a whifper , and withdraw , When twenty fools I never faw Come with petitions fairly penn'd , Defiring I wou ...
... duke . " I own , I'm pleas'd with this rebuke , 40 And take it kindly meant to fhow What I defire the world fhould know . I get a whifper , and withdraw , When twenty fools I never faw Come with petitions fairly penn'd , Defiring I wou ...
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Page 146 - 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 263 - 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 30 - Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Page 43 - A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again.
Page 196 - To raise the lumber from the earth. But view him in another scene, When all his drink is Hippocrene, His money...
Page 300 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Page 45 - Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within...
Page 301 - 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 146 - 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 299 - He'll treat me as he does my betters, Publish my will, my life, my letters ; Revive the libels born to die : Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament.