English Letters and Letterwriters of the Eighteenth Century: With Explanatory Notes |
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Common terms and phrases
acquaintance Addison admiration appeared Arbuthnot believe Bishop called Caryll character correspondence Court critics Curll Dean death desire dined Dublin Duchess Duke Dunciad edition Edmund Curll England Essay esteem Esther Johnson favour friendship give Gulliver happy Harley hear Hessy Homer honour hope Houyhnhnms Iliad Ireland Irish JOHN CARYLL Jonathan Swift Lady late least letter live London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Carteret Lord Oxford Lord Peterborough Lord Treasurer manner mind Miss Moor Park never obliged Pastoral person poem poet poetical poetry political Pope Pope's Pray Princess of Wales printed published Queen satire Secretary seems sent servant Sheridan Stella Swift talk tell things thought tion to-day told Tory town translation Twickenham Vanhomrigh verses Warburton week Whig whole Windsor wish writ write
Popular passages
Page 329 - God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds. Another still, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and. more wide, th...
Page 298 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 326 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified.
Page 298 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 468 - When you shut the doors of this grotto it becomes on the instant, from a luminous room, a camera obscura, on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is finished with shells interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp of an orbicular figure...
Page 185 - Upon this great foundation of misanthropy (though not in Timon's manner) the whole building of my travels is erected ; and I never will have peace of mind till all honest men are of my opinion...
Page 306 - I can never be sure in these fellows, for I neither understand Greek, Latin, French, nor Italian myself. But this is my way : I agree with them for ten shillings per sheet, with a proviso that I will have their doings corrected...
Page 63 - Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : ' (I wish I knew what king to call) ' Madam, your husband will attend ' The funeral of so good a friend.
Page 289 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...