 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 424 pages
...was, and as yours is. I am preparing also for my own, and have nothing so much at heart, as to show the silly world that men of wit, or even poets, may...and indeed, when such unguarded and trifling jeux $ esprit have once got abroad, all that prudence or repentance can do, since they cannot be denied,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...preparing also for my own, and have nothing so much at heart, as to show the silly world •fhatTnen ;of wit, :or .even -poets, may be the most moral of...and indeed, when such unguarded and trifling jeux d 'esprit have once got abroad, all that prudence or repentance can do, since they cannot be denied,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 506 pages
...and languid introduc« lions to each fable, which read like party pamphlets. Dr. WABTON. FF 2 that that men of wit, or even poets, may be the most moral...and indeed, 'when such unguarded and trifling jeux dusprit have once got abroad, all that prudence or repentance can do, since they cannot be denied,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 340 pages
...was, and as your's is. I am preparing also for my own, and have nothing so ranch at heart, as to show the silly world that men of wit, or even poets, may*...fools judge as ill of them as possibly they can, for theft own comfort : and indeed, when such unguarded and trifling^ftr (Tesprit have once got abroad,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 500 pages
...account of the long and languid introductions to each fable, which read like party pamphlets. Dr WARTON. moral of mankind. A few loose things sometimes fall...and indeed, when such unguarded and trifling jeux d' esprit have once got abroad, all that prudence or repentance can do, since they cannot be denied,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 500 pages
...fable, which read like party pamphlets. Dr WARTON. moral of mankind. A few loose things sometimes fait from them, by which censorious fools judge as ill...and indeed, when such unguarded and trifling jeux <f esprit have once got abroad, all that prudence or repentance can do, since they cannot be denied,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 446 pages
...Mortality, and what you mention, of collecting the best monuments we 'can of our friends, their own images in their writings ; (for those are the best,...and indeed, when such unguarded and trifling Jeux d? Esprit have once got abroad, all that prudence or repentance can do, since they cannot be deny'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 pages
...mortality, and what you mention, of collecting the best monuments we can of our friends, their own images in their writings ; for those are the best,...and indeed, when such unguarded and trifling jeux (f esprit have once got abroad, all that prudence or repentance can * It was intitled, The Wife of... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 602 pages
...mortality, and what you mention, of collecting the best monuments we can of our friends, their own images in their writings ; for those are the best,...and indeed, when such unguarded and trifling jeux <f esprit have once got abroad, all that prudence or repentance can * It was intitled, The Wife of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 pages
...was, and as yours is. I am preparing also for my own, and have nothing so much at heart, as to show the silly world that men of wit, or even poets, may...prudence or repentance can do, since they cannot be denied, is to put them fairly upon that foot ; and teach the public (as we have done in the preface... | |
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I think of more than mortality, and what you mention of collecting the best monuments we can of our friends, their own images in their writings : (for those are the best, when their minds are such as Mr. Gay's was, and as yours is.) I am preparing also... 
