The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 19A. Constable, 1814 |
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acquaintance Adieu affairs Alderman Barber answer assure believe Belturbet Clonmel compliments deafness Dean of St Dean's Deane Swift deanery Deanery-House dear Sir desire Dr King DR SHERIDAN DR SWIFT Dublin Duke Dunkin England Esther Vanhomrigh Faulkner favour fear fortune friendship gentleman hand happy hath hear heartily Hessy honour hope humble service humour Ireland JONATH kingdom lady leave let me know letter Lewis live London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Oxford lord-lieutenant lordship MADAM MISS VANHOMRIGH Molkin NAVAN never obedient humble servant obliged opinion ORRERY person pleasure poem Pope pounds pounds sterling Pray present printed received respect RICHARDSON SAMUEL GERRARD sent St Mary Hall St Patrick's sure tell thing THOMAS SHERIDAN thought Tickell tion told town trouble Vanessa WHITEWAY William Dunkin wish word writ write
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Page 456 - Clonmel, sole executors of this my last will and testament : And I do hereby revoke and make void all former and other wills and testaments by me...
Page 326 - I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I caB say is, that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few; few and miserable they must be.
Page 421 - It is impossible to describe what I have suffered since I saw you last. I am sure I could have borne the rack much better than those killing, killing words of yours. Sometimes I have resolved to die without seeing you more ; but those resolves, to your misfortune, did not last long. For there is something in human nature, that prompts one so to find relief in this world, I must give way to it : and beg...
Page 289 - The Duchess of Marlborough makes great court to me ; but I am too old for her mind and body...
Page 17 - My understanding indeed, such as it is, is extended rather than diminished ; I see things more in the whole, more consistent, and more clearly deduced from, and related to each other. But what I gain on the side of philosophy, I lose on the side of poetry ; the flowers are gone when the fruits begin to ripen, and the fruits perhaps will never ripen perfectly.
Page 442 - I have worn on my days in sighing, and my nights with watching and thinking of , who thinks not of me. How many letters must I send you before I shall receive an answer ? Can you deny me in my misery the only comfort which I can expect at present ? Oh ! that I could hope to see you here, or that I could go to you.
Page 119 - I neither visit nor am acquainted with any lord, temporal or spiritual, in the whole kingdom ; ' nor am able to do the least good office to the most deserving man, except what I can dispose of in my own cathedral upon a vacancy. What has sunk my spirits more than even years and sickness, is reflecting on the most execrable corruptions that run through every branch of public management.
Page 424 - ... and more, I assure you. Come at what time you please, you can never fail of being very well received.] TO MISS VANHOMRIGH.* IP you write as you do, I shall come the seldomer, on purpose to be pleased with your letters, which I never look into without wondering how a brat who cannot read can possibly write so well.
Page 19 - For God's sake, why should not you (that are a step higher than a Philosopher, a Divine, yet have too much grace and wit than to be a Bishop) e'en give all you have to the poor of Ireland (for whom you have already done every thing else), so quit the place, and live and die with me ? And let Tales animte Concordes be our Motto and our Epitaph.
Page 18 - I can afford room for yourself and two servants ; I have indeed room enough, nothing but myself at home. The kind and hearty housewife is dead ! the agreeable and instructive neighbour is gone ! Yet my house is enlarged, and the gardens extend and flourish, as knowing nothing of the guests they have lost. I have more fruit-trees and kitchen-garden than you have any thought of : nay, I have good melons and pineapples of my own growth.