Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: In a Series of Letters from John, Earl of Orrery, to His Son, the Honourable Hamilton BoyleA. Millar, 1752 - 214 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 56 - The person I mean is Dr. Swift : a dignified clergyman, but one, who, by his own confession, has composed more libels than sermons. If it be true, what I have heard often affirmed by innocent people, " That too much wit is dangerous to salvation ;" this unfortunate gentleman must certainly be damned to all eternity.
Σελίδα 46 - I am much inclined to believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance. His spirit, for I would give it the softest name, was ever untractable. The motions of his genius were often irregular. He assumed more the air of a patron than of a friend. He affected rather to dictate than advise.
Σελίδα 73 - He had no sooner assumed his new cognomen, than he became the idol of the people of Ireland to a degree of devotion, that in the most superstitious country scarce any idol ever obtained.
Σελίδα 195 - His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, Would halt behind him, were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition.
Σελίδα 68 - His attendance upon the public fervice of the church was regular and uninterrupted : and indeed regularity was peculiar to him in all his actions, even in the F 3 greateft greatefr trifles. His hours of walking, and reading, never varied: His motions were guided by his watch...
Σελίδα 32 - And then proceeded regularly through the whole fervice. I mention this trifling circumftance, only to fhew you, that he could not refift a vein of humour, whenever he had an opportunity of exerting it.
Σελίδα 158 - This great philosopher freely acknowledged his own mistakes in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in many things upon conjecture, as all men must do; and he found that Gassendi, who had made the doctrine of Epicurus as palatable as he could, and the vortices of Descartes, were equally to be exploded.
Σελίδα 84 - I need only tell you, that this ill-starred, good-natured, improvident man returned to Dublin, unhinged from all favour at court, and even banished from the castle. But still he remained a punster, a quibbler, a fiddler, and a wit. Not a day passed without a rebus, an anagram, or a madrigal. His pen and his fiddle-stick were in continual motion; and yet to little or no purpose...
Σελίδα 160 - Epicurus passed his life wholly in his garden: there he studied, there he exercised, there he taught his philosophy; and, indeed, no other sort of abode seems to contribute so much to both the tranquillity of mind and indolence of body, which he made his chief ends.
Σελίδα 70 - Ireland, to fo great a degree, that for fome time pad the chief manufacturers throughout the kingdom were obliged to pay their workmen in pieces of tin, or in other tokens of fuppofititidus value.