 ... and butter and a glass of ale, and at ten he goes to bed. Wine is a stranger, except a little I sent him, of which, one evening in two, we have a pint between us. His wife has been this month twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return...  The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and ... - Page 413by Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 318 pages
...twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return these ten days. I never saw her ; and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day,...short, I have a mind to steal to Ireland, unless I find myself take more to this way of living, so different, in every circumstance, from what I leir,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 492 pages
...twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return these ten days. I never saw her ; and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day, or walk ; and do not speak so many words as I have now writ, in three days : so that, in short, I have a mind to steal to Ireland... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 490 pages
...twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return these ten days. I never saw her ; and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day, or walk ; and do not speak so many words as I have now writ, in three clays : so that, in short, I have a mind to steal to Ireland... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 366 pages
...have now writ, in three days : so that, in short, I have a mind to steal to Ireland, unless I find myself take more to this way of living, so different, in every circumstance, from what I left. This ia the first syllable I have writ to any body since you saw me. I shall be glad to hear from you, not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 334 pages
...twenty miles off, at.her father's, and will not return these ten days. I never saw her : and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day, or walk ; and «k> not speak as many words as I have now writ, in three days : so that, in short, I have a mind to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 506 pages
...; and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day, or walk ; and do not speak so many words as I have now writ, in three days : so...short, I have a mind to steal to Ireland ; unless I find myself take more to this way of living, so different, in every circumstance, from what I left.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 594 pages
...now writ, in three days; so that, in short, [ have a mind to steal to Ireland, unless I feel my;elf take more to this way of living, so different, in every circumstance, from what I left. This is the irst syllable I have writ to any body since you saw le. I shall be glad to hear from you, not as you... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...this month twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return these ten days ; and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day, or walk ; and do not speak so many words as I have now writ in three days ; so that in short I have a mind to steal to Ireland,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 pages
...this month twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return these ten days ; and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day, or walk ; and do not speak so many words as I have now writ in three days ; so that in short I have a mind to steal to Ireland,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 556 pages
...twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return these ten days. I never saw her, and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day,...different, in every circumstance, from what I left." — Swift's Works, vol. xix., p. 336.] i See Pope's Letter, 18th June, 1714, Swift's Works, vol. xvi.,... | |
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