The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Том 18

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C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer., 1766
 

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Стр. 63 - Derry, who has scarcely left behind him his equal in humanity, agreeable conversation, and all kinds of learning. We have often talked of you with great pleasure, and upon this occasion I cannot but reflect upon myself, who, at the same time that I omit no opportunity of expressing my esteem for you to others, have been so negligent in doing it to yourself. I have several times taken up my pen to write to you, but have...
Стр. 285 - I must beg that you will call at Amesbury, in your way to London ; for I have many things to say to you ; and I can assure you, you will be welcome to a three-pronged fork. I remember your prescription, and I do ride upon the Downs ; and at present I have no asthma. I have killed five brace of partridges, and four brace and a half of quails : and I do not envy either Sir Robert or Stephen Duck, who is the favourite poet of the court.
Стр. 6 - I can delight so much in as Dr. Swift's, and yet that is the smallest thing I ought to value you for. That hearty sincere friendship, that plain and open ingenuity in all your commerce, is what I am sure I never can find in another man. I shall want often a faithful monitor, one that would vindicate me behind my back, and tell me my faults to my face. God knows I write this with tears in my eyes.
Стр. 63 - I hope you represent the hardship of the case in the strongest colours that it can possibly bear. However, as I always honoured you for your good nature, which is a very odd quality to celebrate in a man who has talents so much more shining in the eyes of the world...
Стр. 292 - The duchess is a more severe check upon my finances than ever you were, and I submit, as I did to you, to comply to my own good. I was a long time before I could prevail with her to let me allow myself a pair of shoes with two heels, for I had lost one, and the shoes were so decayed that they were not worth mending.
Стр. 335 - Does Pope talk to you of the noble work, which, at my instigation, he has begun in such a manner, that he must be convinced, by this time, I judged better of his talents than he did...
Стр. 111 - I have in my wood the biggest and the clearest spring perhaps in Europe, which forms, before it leaves the park, a more beautiful river than any which flows in Greek or Latin verse.
Стр. 364 - I find it is the most difficult of any that I ever undertook. After I have invented one fable, and finished it, I despair of finding out another ; but I have a moral or two more, which I wish to write upon.
Стр. 174 - Dawley farm, and that you are extremely mortified at my long silence. To relieve you, therefore, from this great anxiety of mind, I can do no less than write a few lines to you; and I please myself beforehand with the vast pleasure which this epistle must needs give you. That I may...
Стр. 195 - I will make over all my profits to you for the property of Gulliver's Travels ; which, I believe, will have as great a run as John Bunyan.

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