The works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2G. Faulkner, 1744 |
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... scarce had spoke ; when fair and soft , The Roof began to mount aloft : Aloft rose ev'ry Beam and Rafter ; The heavy Wall climb'd slowly after . THE Chimney widen'd and grew higher , Became a Steeple with a Spire . THE Kettle to the Top ...
... scarce had spoke ; when fair and soft , The Roof began to mount aloft : Aloft rose ev'ry Beam and Rafter ; The heavy Wall climb'd slowly after . THE Chimney widen'd and grew higher , Became a Steeple with a Spire . THE Kettle to the Top ...
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... scarce , With Cunning that Defect supplies ; Takes a French Play as lawful Prize ; Steals thence his Plot , and ev'ry Joke , Not once fufpecting Jove would smoke ; And ( like a Wag ) fat down to write , Would whisper to himself ; A Bite ...
... scarce , With Cunning that Defect supplies ; Takes a French Play as lawful Prize ; Steals thence his Plot , and ev'ry Joke , Not once fufpecting Jove would smoke ; And ( like a Wag ) fat down to write , Would whisper to himself ; A Bite ...
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... Scarce lift'ning to their idle Chat ; Further than sometimes by a Frown , When they grew pert , to pull them down . At last she spitefully was bent To try their Wisdom's full Extent ; And faid , fhe valu'd nothing less Than Titles ...
... Scarce lift'ning to their idle Chat ; Further than sometimes by a Frown , When they grew pert , to pull them down . At last she spitefully was bent To try their Wisdom's full Extent ; And faid , fhe valu'd nothing less Than Titles ...
Page 56
... , no Life , nor Airs , But what she learnt at Country Fairs ; Scarce knows what Diff'rence is between Rich Flanders Lace , and Colberteen , I'll undertake , my little Nancy In Flounces hath a I'll 56 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
... , no Life , nor Airs , But what she learnt at Country Fairs ; Scarce knows what Diff'rence is between Rich Flanders Lace , and Colberteen , I'll undertake , my little Nancy In Flounces hath a I'll 56 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
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... scarce oppofe Vaneja's Flame ; And tho ' her Arguments were strong , At least could hardly wish them wrong . Howe'er it came , he could not tell , But fure fhe never talk'd fo well , His Pride began to interpofe ; " Preferr'd before a ...
... scarce oppofe Vaneja's Flame ; And tho ' her Arguments were strong , At least could hardly wish them wrong . Howe'er it came , he could not tell , But fure fhe never talk'd fo well , His Pride began to interpofe ; " Preferr'd before a ...
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Page 372 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Page 69 - Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all ? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear; Wherein his dignity and age Forbid Cadenus to engage.
Page 224 - tis a quaint device : Your still-born poems shall revive, And scorn to wrap up spice. Get all your verses printed fair, Then let them well be dried j And Curll must have a special care To leave the margin wide. Lend these to paper-sparing ' Pope ; And when he sits to write. No letter with an envelope Could give him more delight.
Page 20 - Had never left each other's side ; The chimney to a steeple grown, The jack would not be left alone ; But, up against the steeple rear'd, Became a clock...
Page 365 - Thus when Philomela drooping Softly seeks her silent mate, See the bird of Juno stooping ; Melody resigns to fate.
Page 32 - Threat'ning with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
Page 61 - A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy.
Page 104 - To raise the lumber from the earth. But view him in another scene, When all his drink is Hippocrene, His money...
Page 33 - Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell. ' They, as each Torrent drives, with rapid Force From Smithfield, or St. Pulchre's shape their Course, And in huge Confluent join at Snow-Hill Ridge, Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn- Bridge. Sweepings from Butchers...
Page 227 - THIS day, whate'er the Fates decree, Shall still be kept with joy by me : This day, then, let us not be told That you are sick and I grown old, Nor think on our approaching ills, And talk of spectacles and pills : To-morrow will be time enough To hear such mortifying stuff.