The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Volume 12J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Page 63 - It is time for me to have done with the world ; and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Page 51 - As, when in tumults rise th' ignoble crowd, Mad are their motions, and their tongues are loud; And stones and brands in rattling volleys fly, And all the rustic arms that fury can supply: If then some grave and pious man appear, They hush their noise, and lend a list'ning ear; He soothes with sober words their angry mood, And quenches their innate desire of blood...
Page 167 - We are both in the decline of life, my dear dean, and have been some years going down the hill. Let us make the passage as smooth as we can. Let us fence against physical evil by care, and the use of those means which experience must have pointed out to us : let us fence against moral evil by philosophy.
Page 98 - My first friendship, at sixteen, was contracted with a man of seventy, and I found him not grave enough or consistent enough for me, though we lived well to his death. I speak of old Mr. Wycherley...
Page 141 - I could possibly pay the King to endeavour to support truth and innocence in his house, particularly when the King and Queen both told me that they had not read Mr.
Page 167 - Pope, our divine, as you will see one time or other) are the gales of life; let us not complain that they do not blow a storm.
Page 259 - Rochefoucault's maxim; pray finish it.* I am happy whenever you join our names together : so would Dr. Arbuthnot be, but at this time he can be pleased with nothing : for his darling son is dying in all probability, by the melancholy account I received this morning.
Page 78 - I used to think sometimes formerly of old age and of death ; enough to prepare my mind ; not enough to anticipate sorrow, to dash the joys of youth, and to be all my life a dying. I find the benefit of this practice now, and shall find it more as I proceed on my journey ; little regret when I look backward, little apprehension when I look forward.
Page 23 - I suppose Mr Gay will return from the Bath with twenty pounds more flesh and two hundred less in money : Providence never designed him to be above two-and-twenty by his thoughtlessness and Gullibility.
Page 94 - There is no one thought which soothes my mind like this : I encourage my imagination to pursue it, and am heartily afflicted when another faculty * of the intellect comes boisterously in, and wakes me from so pleasing a dream, if it be a dream.