The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 5C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer., 1754 |
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Page 239 - His aspect was furious, his eyes were rather fiery than lively, which he rolled about in an uncommon manner. He often opened his mouth, as if he would have uttered some matter of importance, but the sound seemed lost inwardly. His beard was grown, which they told me he would not suffer to be shaved, believing the modern dramatic poets had corrupted all the barbers in the town to take the first opportunity of cutting his throat. His eye-brows were grey, long...
Page 244 - I fuppofe, fir, you are his apothecary. Gent. Sir, I am his friend. Dr. I doubt it not. What regimen have you obferved, fince he has been under your care? You remember, I fuppofe, thepaffage ofCe/fus, which fays, if the patient on the third day have an interval, fufpend the medicaments at night?
Page 6 - Bull was flattered by the lawyers, that his suit would not last above a year or two at most ; that before that time he would be in quiet possession of his business : yet ten long years did Hocus steer his cause through all the meanders of the law, and all the courts.
Page 236 - He often stares ghastfully, raves aloud, and mutters between his teeth the word Cator, or Cato, or some such thing.
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Page 61 - John had a mother whom he loved and honoured extremely, a discreet, grave, sober, good-conditioned, cleanly old gentlewoman as ever lived. She was none of your cross-grained, termagant, scolding jades that one had as good be hanged as live in the house with, such as are always censuring the conduct and telling scandalous stories of their neighbours, extolling their own good qualities and undervaluing those of others.
Page 95 - Now and then you would see him in the kitchen, weighing the beef and butter, paying ready money, that the maids might not run a tick at the market, and the butchers, by bribing of them, sell damaged and light meat.* Another time he would slip into the cellar and gauge the casks.
Page 20 - It is well known how he has rose early and sat up late to make him easy, when he was sotting at every alehouse in town. I knew his last wife : she was a woman of breeding, good humor, and complaisance — knew how to live in the world.
Page 65 - Miss looked pale and wan, as if she had the green-sickness; and no wonder, for John was the darling, he had all the good bits, was crammed with good pullet, chicken, pig, goose, and capon, while Miss had only a little oatmeal and water, or a dry crust without butter.
Page 8 - Baboon, he was reduced to his last shift, though he had as many as any other. His children were reduced from rich silks to doily stuffs, his servants in rags and barefooted ; instead of good victuals they now lived upon neck beef and bullock's liver.