 | George Coleraine, George Hanger - Prostitution - 1801 - 356 pages
...this definition of happiness, and examine it with reference to the senses, it will be acknowledged wonderfully adapted. How fading and insipid do all...most perfect happiness which. we can enjoy is to be i * Dean Swift. '. t Swift's Works. well deceived : why then shouTcl you deal in truth, when, by substituting... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...the senses, it will be acknowledged wonderfully adapt. How fading and insipid do all objects accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion...there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a certain reason... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...wonderfully adapt. How fading and insipid do all objects accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehLle of delusion ! how shrunk is every thing, as it appears...there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a certain reason... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...and insipid do all objects accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion ! ho\v shrank is every thing, as it appears in the glass of nature...there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously con-t sidered by the world, as I have a certain reason... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1811 - 390 pages
...the senses, it will be acknowledged wonderfully adapt. How fading and insipid do all objects accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion!...there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a certain reason... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - English literature - 1812 - 250 pages
...accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion! how shrunk is every thing, as it appeal's in the glass of nature ! so that if it were not for...there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a certain rea*... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 380 pages
...appears in "the glass of nature ! so that if it were uot for the assistance of artificial medinms, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel,...there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a certain rea*... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 442 pages
...the senses, it will be acknowledged wonderfully adapt. How fading and insipid do all objects accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion...there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a certain reason... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...senses, it will be acknowledged •wonderfully adapt. How fading and insipid do all objects accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion...there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were seriously considered by the world, as I have a certain reason... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 448 pages
...How fading and insipid do all objects accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion 1 how shrunk is every thing, as it appears in the glass...there would be a mighty level in the felicity and enjoyments of mortal men. If this were serious.ly considered by the world, as I have a certain reason... | |
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How fading and insipid do all objects accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion ! how shrunk is every thing, as it appears in the glass of nature ! so that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted... 
