The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 2R. Cadell, 1834 |
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Walter Scott. sister - in - law , but Godwin , who was supposed to be wealthy , was her chief support ; and , upon the 30th of November , 1667 , being St Andrew's day , she was delivered of the celebrated Jonathan Swift . The place of ...
Walter Scott. sister - in - law , but Godwin , who was supposed to be wealthy , was her chief support ; and , upon the 30th of November , 1667 , being St Andrew's day , she was delivered of the celebrated Jonathan Swift . The place of ...
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... supposed , more by affection than hope , he bent his course to England , and travelled on foot to his mother's residence , who was then in Leices- tershire . Herself in a dependent and precarious situation , Mrs Swift could only ...
... supposed , more by affection than hope , he bent his course to England , and travelled on foot to his mother's residence , who was then in Leices- tershire . Herself in a dependent and precarious situation , Mrs Swift could only ...
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... supposed author of the Tale of a Tub , & c . , but they seem to point more particularly to a flagrant part of his criminality at Kilroot , not so generally known . A general account of this offence is all that is requisite here , and ...
... supposed author of the Tale of a Tub , & c . , but they seem to point more particularly to a flagrant part of his criminality at Kilroot , not so generally known . A general account of this offence is all that is requisite here , and ...
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... supposed that this inexplicable figment did really originate with Dean Dobbs , and that he had been led into a mistake , by the initial letters , J. S. , upon the alleged papers , which might apply to Jonathan Smedley ( to whom , indeed ...
... supposed that this inexplicable figment did really originate with Dean Dobbs , and that he had been led into a mistake , by the initial letters , J. S. , upon the alleged papers , which might apply to Jonathan Smedley ( to whom , indeed ...
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... supposed walk down to La- racor ; all this 104 years after the date of the said walk ; and it having been proverbial of Swift , that he never was known to appear out of his canonicals . - See MASON , p . 242. ] ' His mode of introducing ...
... supposed walk down to La- racor ; all this 104 years after the date of the said walk ; and it having been proverbial of Swift , that he never was known to appear out of his canonicals . - See MASON , p . 242. ] ' His mode of introducing ...
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Page 453 - When on my sickly couch I lay, Impatient both of night and day, Lamenting in unmanly strains, Call'd every power to ease my pains ; Then Stella ran to my relief, With cheerful face and inward grief ; And, though by Heaven's severe decree She suffers hourly more than me, No cruel master could require, From slaves employ'd for daily hire, What Stella, by her friendship warm'd, With vigour and delight perform'd...
Page 107 - Lord Treasurer, after leaving the Queen, came through the room, beckoning Dr. Swift to follow him : both went off just before prayers.
Page 58 - than I can say ; I never remember any weather that was not too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry ; but, however God Almighty contrives it, at the end of the year 'tis all very well.
Page 393 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 205 - Thou, Stella, wert no longer young', When first for thee my harp was strung, Without one word of Cupid's darts, Of killing eyes, or bleeding hearts ; With Friendship and Esteem possest, I ne'er admitted Love a guest.
Page 297 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Page 225 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening, Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in, ' heyday, gentlemen, (says the doctor) what's the meaning of this visit?
Page 104 - I warned him of, never to appear cold to me, for I would not be treated like a school-boy ; that I had felt too much of that in my life already...
Page 393 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.