The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Volume 21814 |
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Page 284 - my lord and me: so I have made a worthy man easy, and that is a good day's work. ,* I am proposing to my lord to erect a society or academy for correcting and settling our language, that we may not perpetually be changing as we do. He enters mightily into it, so does the dean of Carlisle;
Page 264 - will say no more, but beg you to be easy, till fortune take her course, and to believe that MD's felicity is the great end I aim at in all my pursuits. And so let us talk no more on this subject, which makes me melancholy, and that I would fain divert.
Page 37 - of Harley. He charged me to come to him often; I told him I was loth to trouble him in so much business as he had, and desired I might have leave to come at his levee ; which he immediately refused, and said, That was not a place for friends to
Page 284 - of the nation, For poets open table kept, But ne'er considered where they slept. Himself, as rich as fifty Jews, Was easy though they wanted shoes; And crazy Congreve scarce could spare A shilling to discharge his chair, Till prudence taught him to appeal From
Page 185 - warrant you. Sir Andrew Fountaine and I dined by invitation, with Mrs Vanhomrigh. You say they are of no consequence; why, they keep as good female company as I do male; I see all the drabs of quality at this end of the town with them , I saw two lady Bettys there this afternoon. The
Page 27 - the first floor, a dining room and bedchamber, at eight shillings a week; plaguy deep, but I spend nothing for eating, never go to a tavern, and very seldom in a coach ; yet after all it will be expensive. Why do you trouble yourself, Mrs Stell, about my instrument ? I have the same the archbishop gave me;
Page 126 - I swear it pitied me; and I really think they will not do well in too much mortifying that man, although indeed it is his own fault. He is covetous as Hell, and ambitious as the prince of it: he would fain have been general for life, and has broken all
Page 129 - He alludes to the pamphlet written by Swift himself, and entitled," A Short Character of his Ex. TE of WLL of I—, with an account of some smaller Facts, during his Government, which will not be put into the Articles of Impeachment. London, Printed for William Coryton, Bookseller, at the Black Swan, on
Page 232 - myself, so I sent my hints to the author of the Atalantis, * and she has cooked it into a sixpenny pamphlet, in her own style, only the first page is left as I was beginning it. But I was afraid of disobliging Mr Harley or Mr St John in one critical point about it,
Page 11 - and his wife pass by me to-day in their coach; but I took no notice of them. I am glad I have wholly shaken off that family. Tell the provost I have obeyed his commands to the Duke of Ormond; or let it alone, if you please.