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Parole e frasi comuniacquaintance Adieu Aimsbury angry answer Arbuthnot Beggar's Opera believe Bishop of Clogher chuse consess Court Dawley deaf death deserve desire Dublin Duchess Duke Dulness Dunciad England esteem faid fame fatirical favour fortune friends friendship Gay's give glad good-natur'd Grace Gulliver happy hate hath hear heart honour hope humble humour Ireland Irish John Gay kind kingdom knew Lady least less letter lise live London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Carteret Lord Oxford Lord Peterborow ment mind Ministers never Opera Party perhaps persectly person pleas'd pleased pleasure Poem Poets Pope pray present printed proximity of blood reason receiv'd sear shew sorry spirit sure Swift tell ther thing thought told town Twickenham verses vex'd virtue Whig whole wine wish writ write Brani popolariPagina 119 - I used to be going to bed, surfeited with pleasure, or jaded with business : my head often full of schemes, and my heart as often full of anxiety. Is it a misfortune, think you, that I rise at this hour refreshed, serene, and calm ? that the past... Pagina 97 - As to this country,* there have been three terrible years dearth of corn, and every place strewed with beggars; but dearths are common in better climates, and our evils here lie much deeper. Imagine a nation the two thirds of whose revenues are spent out of it, and who are not permitted to trade with the other third, and where the pride of women will not suffer... Pagina 159 - Two or three of us had a fancy, three years ago, to write a weekly paper, and call it an Intelligencer. But it continued not long ; for the whole volume (it was reprinted in London, and I find you have seen it,) was the work only of two, myself and Dr. Pagina 64 - But the best way of convincing you of my indulgence, will be, if I live, to visit you in Ireland, and act there as much in my own way as you did here in yours. Pagina 55 - Lords and Commons, nemine contradicente; and the whole town, men, women, and children, are quite full of it. Perhaps I may all this time be talking to you of a book you have never seen, and which... Pagina 53 - The politicians to a man agree, that it is free from particular reflections, but that the satire on general societies of men is too severe. Pagina 178 - Dr. Delany is the only gentleman I know, who keeps one certain day in the week to entertain seven or eight friends at dinner, and to pass the evening, where there is nothing of excess, either in eating or drinking. Pagina 139 - ... to your stock, and then I shall be in less pain about you. I know you can find dinners, but you love twelvepenny coaches too well, without considering that the interest of a whole thousand pounds brings you but half a crown a day... Pagina 121 - I muft accommodate my plan to this deficiency. In the mean time Pope has given me more trouble than he or I thought of ; and you will be... Pagina 177 - It is true our meat and wine is cheaper here, as it is always in the poorest countries, because there is no money to pay for them : I believe there are not in this whole city three gentlemen out of employment, who are able to give entertainments... Informazioni bibliografiche
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