The works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2G. Faulkner, 1744 |
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Page 106
... Nose . So , Celia went entire to Bed , All her Complexions fafe and found ; But , when she rofe , White , Black , and Red , Tho ' ftill in fight , had chang'd their Ground . The Black , which would not be confin'd , A more inferior ...
... Nose . So , Celia went entire to Bed , All her Complexions fafe and found ; But , when she rofe , White , Black , and Red , Tho ' ftill in fight , had chang'd their Ground . The Black , which would not be confin'd , A more inferior ...
Page 109
... Nose , Nor will her Teeth return again . Ye Pow'rs , who over Love prefide ! Since mortal Beauties drop fo foon , If you would have us well supply'd , Send us new Nymphs with each new Moon . An ELEGY on the much lamented Death of Mr ...
... Nose , Nor will her Teeth return again . Ye Pow'rs , who over Love prefide ! Since mortal Beauties drop fo foon , If you would have us well supply'd , Send us new Nymphs with each new Moon . An ELEGY on the much lamented Death of Mr ...
Page 114
... Nose . YOUR Virtues fafely I commend ; They on no Accidents depend : Let Malice look with all her Eyes , She dares not fay , the Poet lyes . STELLA , STELLA , when you these Lines transcribe , Left you 114 . POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
... Nose . YOUR Virtues fafely I commend ; They on no Accidents depend : Let Malice look with all her Eyes , She dares not fay , the Poet lyes . STELLA , STELLA , when you these Lines transcribe , Left you 114 . POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
Page 132
... Nose . $ The Scottish Nation , whom he durft offend , Again apply , that S would be their Friend . By * The Proclamation was against the Author of a Pamphlet , called , The Publick Spirit of the Whigs , against which the Scotch Lords ...
... Nose . $ The Scottish Nation , whom he durft offend , Again apply , that S would be their Friend . By * The Proclamation was against the Author of a Pamphlet , called , The Publick Spirit of the Whigs , against which the Scotch Lords ...
Page 159
... Nose , To tell what ev'ry School - Boy knows , And , with his Finger on his Thumb Explaining , ftrikes Oppofers dumb : Or how his Wife , that Female Pedant , ( But now there need no more be faid on't , ) Shews all her Secrets of House ...
... Nose , To tell what ev'ry School - Boy knows , And , with his Finger on his Thumb Explaining , ftrikes Oppofers dumb : Or how his Wife , that Female Pedant , ( But now there need no more be faid on't , ) Shews all her Secrets of House ...
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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.