The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ...

Jonathan Swift

W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768

Continguts

• T O the Earl of Peterborough Page: 1
• Dr Sheridan to J S D D D S P D: 7
• Another: 11
• The Author on Himſelf: 13
• To the E of Oxford in the Tower: 19
• Elegy on Demar the Ufurer: 30
• Defcription of an Irish Feaft: 36
• Carberiæ Rupes: 44
• Upon the Plot discovered by Harlequin: 50
• A quibbling Elegy on Juge Boat: 58
• Epitaph on the fame Receipt to reflore Stellas Youth: 59
• Sheridans Submiffion: 61
• The Anfwer: 65
• Riddles from 70 to: 86
• To Quilca: 94
• On reading Dr Youngs Satires: 100
• Another ibid: 106
• On Cenfure: 115
• On cutting down the old Thorn at Market: 121
• On burning a dull Poem: 127
• To Janus on NewyearsDay: 138
• An excellent new Ballad c: 155
• The Ladys DreffingRoom: 161
• The Power of Time: 167
• The Second Part: 177
• On Stephen Duck: 185
• The Place of the Damnd: 201
• Apollo or a Problem folved: 219
• Judas: 226
• On the Bs of Ireland from Fogs Jour: 240
• To the fame with a Silver Standifh: 247
• On Poetry a Rhapsody: 254
• Legion Club: 275
• An Apology etc: 285
• A new Simile for the Ladies By: 292
• Tim and the Fables: 304
• Ode to Sir W Temple: 325
• Another: 335
• Verfes made for Women who cry Apples: 344
• and Herrings: 350
• To Love: 377
• A Ballad on the Game of Traffick: 383
• On the De of C e of Cs: 389
• The Discovery: 403
• A Love Poem from a Phyfician to his Mif: 408
• Riddles from 413 to: 424
• Written by the Rev Doctor Swift on: 430

Passatges populars

Pàgina 71 - But, that which wonderful appears, I speak to eyes, and not to ears. He oft...

Pàgina 275 - Let them rave at making laws ; While they never hold their tongue, Let them dabble in their dung : Let them form a grand committee, How to plague and starve the city ; Let them...

Pàgina 417 - THE VOWELS We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.

Pàgina 261 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.

Pàgina 92 - 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 deathwatch ; 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.

Pàgina 260 - Depend upon't their judgment's right. But if you blab, you are undone : Consider what a risk you run : You lose your credit all at once ; The town will mark you for a dunce ; The vilest doggrel, Grub-street sends, Will pass for yours with foes and friends ; And you must bear the whole disgrace, Till some fresh blockhead takes your place.

Pàgina 178 - Hence the mean and sordid soul, Like his body, rank and foul; Hence that wild suspicious peep, Like a rogue that steals a sheep...

Pàgina 146 - But, madam, I beg you contrive and invent, And worry him out, till he gives his consent. Dear madam, whene'er of a barrack I think, An I were to be hang'd, I can't sleep a wink : For if a new crotchet comes into my brain, I can't get it out, though I'd never so fain.

Pàgina 359 - The Ass approaching next, confess'd, That in his heart he loved a jest: A wag he was, he needs must own, And could not let a dunce alone: Sometimes his friend he would not...

Pàgina 256 - Hath blasted with poetic fire. What hope of custom in the fair, While not a soul demands your ware? Where you have nothing to produce For private life, or public use? Court, city, country want you not; You cannot bribe, betray, or plot.

Informació bibliogràfica

• Títol: The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ...; Volum 7 de The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, John Hawkesworth
• Autor: Jonathan Swift
• Editors: John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift
• Editor: W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768
• Original de: Biblioteca Pública de Nova York
• Digitalitzat el: 15 Nov. 2006