 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 448 páginas
...the fashionable society of the present day. The Dean himself, in his letters, describes it as a trial to reduce the whole politeness, wit, humour, and style...of quality, and particularly the Maids of Honour. INTRODUCTION. As my life has been chiefly spent in consulting the honour and welfare of my country... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 442 páginas
...the fashionable society of the present day. The Dean himself, in his letters, describes it as a trial to reduce the whole politeness, wit, humour, and style...of quality, and particularly the Maids of Honour. INTRODUCTION. As my life has been chiefly spent in consulting the honour and welfare of my country... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 480 páginas
...parson's, to whom I lately gave a city living, such as an English chaplain would leap at. I retired hither for the public good, having two great works in hand:...politeness, wit, humour, and style of England into a,short system, for the use of all persons of quality, and particularly the maids of honour. The other... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 500 páginas
...parson's, to whom I lately gave a City-living, such as an English Chaplain would leap at. I retired hither for the public good, having two great works in hand...persons of quality, and particularly the maids of honour2. The other is of almost equal importance ; I may call it the Whole Duty of Servants in about... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 446 páginas
...parson's, to whom I lately gave a City-living, such as an English Chaplain would leap at. I retired hither for the public good, having two great works in hand...persons of quality, and particularly the maids of honour2. The other is of almost equal importance ; I may call it the Whole Duty of Servants in about... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 páginas
...parson's, to whom I lately gave a city-living, such as an English chaplain would leap at. I retired hither for the public good, having two great works in hand...of quality, and particularly the maids of honour.* The other is of almost equal importance ; I may call it the Whole Duty of Servants, in about twenty... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 628 páginas
...parson's, to whom I lately gave a city-living, such as an English chaplain would leap at. I retired hither for the public good, having two great works in hand...of quality, and particularly the maids of honour.* The other is of almost equal importance ; I may call it the Whole Duty of Servants, in about twenty... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 602 páginas
...parson's, to whom I lately gave a city-living, such as an English chaplain would leap at. I retired hither for the public good, having two great works in hand...of quality, and particularly the maids of honour.* The other is of almost equal importance ; I may call it the Whole Duty of Servants, 4n about twenty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 páginas
...parson's, to whom I lately gave a city-living, such as an English chaplain would leap at. I retired hither for the public good, having two great works in hand...persons of quality, and particularly the maids of honour 2. The other is of almost equal importance ; I may call it the Whole Duty of Servants, in about twenty... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 páginas
...Servants," his " Polite Conversation," and many of the whimsical things which he wrote in conjunction witli Sheridan. " I retired hither," the dean says, in one...into a short system for the use of all persons of ijuality, and particularly the m*n'd* of honour, &c.' INTRODUCTION. As my life has been chiefly spent... | |
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I retired hither for the public good, having two great works in hand : * one to reduce the whole politeness, wit, humour, and style of England into a short system, for the use of all persons of quality, and particularly the maids of honour. 
