The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life, Volumen3

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Little, Brown, 1853
 

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Página 60 - Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs ; Or, " Have you nothing new to-day From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay?" Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
Página 59 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,
Página 191 - Thou, I hear, a pleasant rogue art. Were but you and I acquainted, Every monster should be painted : You should try your graving tools On this odious group of fools ; Draw the beasts as I describe them...
Página 58 - And take it kindly meant to show What I desire the world should know. I get a whisper, and withdraw, When twenty fools I never saw Come with petitions fairly penn'd, Desiring i would stand their friend.
Página 102 - That lies in old Wood like a Hare in her Form ; With Teeth or with Claws it will bite or will scratch, And Chambermaids christen this Worm a Death-Watch : 20 Because like a Watch it always cries Click: Then Woe be to those in the House who are sick: For, as sure as a Gun they will give up the Ghost If the Maggot cries Click when it scratches the Post.
Página 77 - ... to try Some new unbeaten passage to the sky ; Where Jove a seat among the gods will give To those who die, for meriting to live. Next faithful Silence hath a sure reward ; Within our breast be every secret barr'd ! He who betrays his friend, shall never be Under one roof, or in one ship, with me : * The ensign of the lord treasurer's office.
Página 183 - For Divines allow, that God Sometimes makes the Devil his Rod: And the Gospel will inform us He can punish Sins enormous. Yet should Swift endow the Schools For his Lunatics and Fools, With a Rood or two of Land, I allow the Pile may stand. You perhaps will ask me, why so ? But it is with this Proviso, Since the House is like to last, Let a Royal Grant be pass'd, That the Club have Right to dwell Each within his proper Cell; With a Passage left to creep in, And a Hole above for peeping.
Página 55 - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Página 48 - Not knowing where to turn him next, Above a thousand pounds in debt, Takes horse, and in a mighty fret Rides day and night at such a rate, He soon arrives at Harley's gate, But was so dirty, pale, and thin, Old Read would hardly let him in.
Página 295 - And Saunders, the man, says you are always jesting and mocking: Mary, said he, (one day as I was mending my master's stocking;) My master is so fond of that minister that keeps the school — I thought my master a wise man, but that man makes him a fool.

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