Remarks on the Life and writings of dr. Jonathan SwiftA. Millar, 1752 - 80 pages |
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Page 158 - According to the original eftablifhment, the jurors are to be men of competent fortunes in the neighbourhood : and are to be fo avowedly indifferent between the parties concerned, that no reafonable . exception can be made to them on either fide.
Page 81 - ... impossible not to own, that he too frequently forgets that politeness and tenderness of manners, which are undoubtedly due to human kind. From his early, and repeated disappointments, he became a misanthrope.
Page 137 - His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, Would halt behind him, were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition.
Page 47 - He had no sooner assumed his new cognomen, than he became the idol of the people of Ireland to a degree of devotion, that in the most superstitious country scarce any idol ever obtained. Libations to his health, or, in plain...
Page 36 - The person I mean is Dr. Swift : a dignified clergyman, but one, who, by his own confession, has composed more libels than sermons. If it be true, what I have heard often affirmed by innocent people, " That too much wit is dangerous to salvation ;" this unfortunate gentleman must certainly be damned to all eternity.
Page 164 - ... but no blackness will appear after the blows. He laughs as jovially as an attendant upon Bacchus, but continues as sober and considerate as a disciple of Socrates. He is seldom serious, except in his attacks upon vice, and there his spirit rises with a manly strength and a noble indignation.
Page 80 - CELIA in the most hideous colours he could find, lest she might be mistaken as a goddess, when she was only a mortal. External beauty is very alluring to youth and inexperience ; and SWIFT, by pulling off the borrowed plumes of his harpy, discovers at once a frightful bird of prey, and by making her offensive, renders her less dangerous and inviting.
Page 22 - Dublin, had not interposed ; entreating that the deanery might be given to some grave and elderly divine, rather than to so young a man ; because, added the bishop, the situation of Derry is in the midst of Presbyterians, and I should...
Page 168 - SWIFT'S Will: which, like all his other writings, is drawn up in his own peculiar manner. Even in fo ferious a compofition he cannot help indulging himfelf, in leaving legacies that carry with them an air of raillery and jeft. He difpofes of his three hats (his beft, his fecond beft, and his third beft 'beaver) with an ironical fblemnity, that renders the bequefts ridiculous. He bequeaths " to Mr. JOHN GRATTAN a jifoer box^ " to keep in it the tobacco which the faid " JOHN ufually chewed, catted...