The works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2G. Faulkner, 1744 |
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Page 98
... Glass had made her fee " A Serving - Man of low Degree . " It was her Fate , must be forgiven , " For Marriages were made in Heaven : " His Pardon begg'd ; but , to be plain , She'd do't , if ' twere to do again . " Thank GOD , ' twas ...
... Glass had made her fee " A Serving - Man of low Degree . " It was her Fate , must be forgiven , " For Marriages were made in Heaven : " His Pardon begg'd ; but , to be plain , She'd do't , if ' twere to do again . " Thank GOD , ' twas ...
Page 141
... Glass , Than what it always did before . So , caft it in the Southern Seas , Or view it thro ' a Jobber's Bill ; Put on what Spectacles you please , Your Guinea's but a Guinea ftill . One Night a Fool into a Brook , Thus from a Hillock ...
... Glass , Than what it always did before . So , caft it in the Southern Seas , Or view it thro ' a Jobber's Bill ; Put on what Spectacles you please , Your Guinea's but a Guinea ftill . One Night a Fool into a Brook , Thus from a Hillock ...
Page 153
... Glass was fine . At laft grown prouder than the D1 , With feeding high , and Treatment civil , Don Carlos now began to find His Malice work as he defign'd ; The Winter - Sky began to frown , Poor Stella muft pack off to Town . From ...
... Glass was fine . At laft grown prouder than the D1 , With feeding high , and Treatment civil , Don Carlos now began to find His Malice work as he defign'd ; The Winter - Sky began to frown , Poor Stella muft pack off to Town . From ...
Page 157
... Glass . ) Dan , growing drowsy , like a Thief Steals off to dofe away his Beef ; And this must pass for reading Hammond- While George and Dean go to Back - Gammon . George , Nim , and Dean fet out at Four , And then again , Boys , to ...
... Glass . ) Dan , growing drowsy , like a Thief Steals off to dofe away his Beef ; And this must pass for reading Hammond- While George and Dean go to Back - Gammon . George , Nim , and Dean fet out at Four , And then again , Boys , to ...
Page 175
... Glass will bring supplies To weak , or old , or clouded Eyes . Your Arms , tho ' both your Eyes were lost , Would guard your Nose against a Poft Without Without your Legs , two Legs of Wood Are stronger POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS . 175.
... Glass will bring supplies To weak , or old , or clouded Eyes . Your Arms , tho ' both your Eyes were lost , Would guard your Nose against a Poft Without Without your Legs , two Legs of Wood Are stronger POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS . 175.
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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.
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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.