 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...it appears in the glass of nature ! so that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel; there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...it appears in the glass of nature ! so that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel ; there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a... | |
 | George Coleraine, George Hanger - Prostitution - 1801 - 356 pages
...it appears in the glass of nature ! So that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish, and tinsel ; there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyment of mortal manf . The most perfect happiness which. we can enjoy is to be i *... | |
 | George Hanger - Great Britain - 1801 - 356 pages
...it appears in the glass of nature ! So that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish, and tinsel; there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyment of mortal man-f\ The most perfect happiness which we can enjoy is to be * Dean... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...it appears in the glass of nature ! so that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel ; there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously con-t sidered by the world, as I have... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1811 - 390 pages
...it appears in the glass of nature ! So that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel, there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - English literature - 1812 - 250 pages
...appeal's in the glass of nature ! so that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel, there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...appears in the glass of nature ! so that if it •were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel, there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 442 pages
...it appears in the glass of nature ! so that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel, there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...appears in the glass of nature ! so that, if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel, there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men." When he wrote this, indeed, Swift must have been thinking of... | |
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How fading and insipid do all objects accost us that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion ! How shrunk is everything as it appears in the glass of nature ! So that, if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted... 
