The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 15J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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... desired him to bring nobody , because she had only a leg of mutton . I said , I would dine with him to choose ; but he would send a servant to order a plate or two : yet this man has ten thousand pounds a year in land , and is a lord of ...
... desired him to bring nobody , because she had only a leg of mutton . I said , I would dine with him to choose ; but he would send a servant to order a plate or two : yet this man has ten thousand pounds a year in land , and is a lord of ...
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... desired I would see him this morn- ing , said he had several things to say to me , and said not one : and the duke of Ormond sent to desire I would meet him at Mr. Southwell's by ten this morn- ing too , which I did , thinking it was ...
... desired I would see him this morn- ing , said he had several things to say to me , and said not one : and the duke of Ormond sent to desire I would meet him at Mr. Southwell's by ten this morn- ing too , which I did , thinking it was ...
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... desired , in the name of the club , that I would do them the ho- nour to dine with them . I sent my excuses , adorned with about thirty compliments , and got off as fast as I could . It would have been a most improper thing for me to ...
... desired , in the name of the club , that I would do them the ho- nour to dine with them . I sent my excuses , adorned with about thirty compliments , and got off as fast as I could . It would have been a most improper thing for me to ...
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... desired it , or threatened she would not let me visit her daughters . I sat an hour with her , and we were good company , when in came the countess of Bellamont , with a pox . I went out , and we did not know one another ; yet hearing ...
... desired it , or threatened she would not let me visit her daughters . I sat an hour with her , and we were good company , when in came the countess of Bellamont , with a pox . I went out , and we did not know one another ; yet hearing ...
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... me yesterday , how he came to disoblige the archbishop of Dublin ? upon which ( having not his letter about me ) I told him what the bishop had written written to me on that subject , and desired I JOURNAL TO STELLA . 31 May 10 May.
... me yesterday , how he came to disoblige the archbishop of Dublin ? upon which ( having not his letter about me ) I told him what the bishop had written written to me on that subject , and desired I JOURNAL TO STELLA . 31 May 10 May.
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Page 101 - The queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt, but finding it disposed to rain, she kept in her coach; she hunts in a chaise with one horse, which she drives herself, and drives furiously, like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod.
Page 8 - never to appear cold to me, for I would not be treated like a schoolboy ; that I had felt too much of that in my life already...
Page 336 - I could not be spared, which was true. They have removed the poor Duchess to a lodging in the neighbourhood, where I have been with her two hours, and am just come away. I never saw so melancholy a scene ; for indeed all reasons for real grief belong to her ; nor is it possible for anybody to be a greater loser in all regards. She has moved my very soul.
Page 79 - Farewell, my dearest lives and delights, I love you better than ever, if possible, as hope saved, I do, and ever will. God Almighty bless you ever, and make us happy together ; I pray for this twice every day; and I hope God will hear my poor hearty prayers.
Page 352 - ... of the ministers than any other people. Steele I have kept in his place. Congreve I have got to be used kindly, and secured. Rowe I have recommended, and got a promise of a place. Philips I should certainly have provided for, if he had not run party mad, and made me withdraw my recommendation.
Page 421 - I am less out of humour than you would imagine : and if it were not that impertinent people will condole with me, as they used to give me joy, I would value it less. But I will avoid company, and muster up my baggage, and send them next Monday by the carrier to Chester, and come and see my willows, against the expectation of all the world. — Hat care I ? Nite deelest logues, MD.
Page 420 - Berkeley is a very ingenious man, and great philosopher, and I have mentioned him to all the ministers, and have given them some of his writings ; and I will favour him as much as I can. This I think I am bound to, in honour and conscience, to use all my little credit toward helping forward men of worth in the world.
Page 334 - I should talk to her of an ugly squinting cousin of hers, and the poor lady herself, you know, squints like a dragon. The other day we had a long discourse with her about love ; and she told us a saying of her sister Fitzharding, which I thought excellent, that in men, desire begets love, and in women, love begets desire.
Page 135 - Van, and dined with her and her damned landlady, who, I believe, by her eyebrows, is a bawd. This evening I met Addison and Pastoral Philips in the Park, and supped with them at Addison's lodgings ; we were very good company ; and yet know no man half so agreeable to me as he is.
Page 47 - My way is this : I leave my best gown and periwig at Mrs. Vanhomrigh's, then walk up the Pall mall, through the park, out at Buckingham house, and so to Chelsea a little beyond the church...