 | Jonathan Swift - 1726 - 386 pagine
...thofe Objects againft which their Envy feems principally directed, are the Vices of the younger fort and the Deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former, they find thcmfelvcs cut off from all poffibility of Pleafure; and whenever they fee a Funeral, they lament and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 386 pagine
...and impotent Defires are their prevailing Paffions. But thofe Objects, againft which their Envy feems principally directed, are the Vices of the younger...of the old. By. reflecting on the former, they find fchemfelves cilt off from all Poffibility of Pleafure ; and whenever they fee a Funeral, they lament... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1743 - 430 pagine
...and impotent Defires, are their prevailing Paflions. But thofe Objects againft which their Envy feems principally directed, are the Vices of the younger...of the old. By reflecting on the former, they find themfelves cut off from all Polfibility of Pleafure ; and whenever they fee a Funeral, they lament... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 416 pagine
...thofe objects againft which their envy feems principally direcied, are the vices of the younger fort, and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former they find themfelves cut off from all poffibility of pleafure ; and whenever they fee a funeral, they lament... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 412 pagine
...thofe objefts, againlt which their envy feems principally directed, are the vices of the younger Ibrt, and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former they find themfelves cut off from all poffibility of pleafure; and whenever they fee afuneral, they lament and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 382 pagine
...thole objects, againft which their envy feems principally directed, are the vices of the younger fort, and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former they fkid .f. If it be faid, that although the folly of dafiring !ife to be pro> Jon^;<d undtr the diiadvantages... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 392 pagine
...vain, talkative ; but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grand-children. Envy, and impotent desires,...; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others are gone to a harbour of rest, to which they themselves never can hope to arrive.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pagine
...younger sort, and the deaths of the old. ^^ Jy reflecting on the former, they find themselves <-Ut off from all possibility of pleasure ; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others are gone to a harbour of rest, to which they themselves never can hope to arrive.... | |
 | William Cook - 1804 - 468 pagine
...vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural atfection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and impotent desires...passions. But those objects against which their envy seemeth principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort, and the deaths of the old. By reflecting... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 pagine
...talkative ; but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, -which never descended below their grand-children. Envy, and impotent desires,...they find themselves cut off from all possibility * If it be said, that although the folly of desiring life to be pro-, longed under the disadvantages... | |
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Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort, and the deaths of the old. 
