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... letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denunci- ation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevo- lence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died ...
... letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denunci- ation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevo- lence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died ...
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... Letter to the Earl of Ox- ford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature of language , and without any accu- rate enquiry into the history of other tongues . The certainty and stability which , contrary to all expe- rience ...
... Letter to the Earl of Ox- ford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature of language , and without any accu- rate enquiry into the history of other tongues . The certainty and stability which , contrary to all expe- rience ...
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... letters , took plea- sure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a ...
... letters , took plea- sure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a ...
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... Letters " in 1724 . One Wood , of Wolverhampton , in Staffordshire , a man enterprising and rapacious , had , as is said , by a present to the Duchess of Munster , obtained a patent , empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty ...
... Letters " in 1724 . One Wood , of Wolverhampton , in Staffordshire , a man enterprising and rapacious , had , as is said , by a present to the Duchess of Munster , obtained a patent , empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty ...
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... letters , un- der the name of M. B. Drapier , to shew the folly of receiving , and the mischief that must ensue by ... Letter . Swift had concealed himself from his printers , and trust- ed only his butler , who transcribed the paper ...
... letters , un- der the name of M. B. Drapier , to shew the folly of receiving , and the mischief that must ensue by ... Letter . Swift had concealed himself from his printers , and trust- ed only his butler , who transcribed the paper ...
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Page 203 - Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms—
Page 65 - Guardian"; he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed; he endeavoured to direct his niece till she should be able to direct herself. Poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl.
Page 260 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Page 41 - That's very strange ; but, if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings ; tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket I' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Page 225 - ... as books or conversation extended his knowledge and opened his prospects. They are, I think, improved in general; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their "race," a word which, applied to wines in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil.
Page 223 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Page 118 - His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause.
Page 127 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Page 196 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 148 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.