The Works of the Rev Jonathan Swift |
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Author:
| Swift, Jonathan |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-13654-9 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: C Introduction To The Memoirs or SCRIBLERUS. IN the reign of Qneen Anne (which, ftotwithi standing those happy times which succeeded, every Erfglishman may remember) thou mayst possibly gentle reader, have seen a certain venerable person who frequented the outside of the palace of St. James's, and who, by...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: C Introduction To The Memoirs or SCRIBLERUS. IN the reign of Qneen Anne (which, ftotwithi standing those happy times which succeeded, every Erfglishman may remember) thou mayst possibly gentle reader, have seen a certain venerable person who frequented the outside of the palace of St. James's, and who, by the gravity of his deportment and habit, was generally taken for a decayed gentleman of Spain. His stature was tall, his visage long, his complexion olive, his bros were black and even, his eyes hollow yet piercing, his nose inclined to aquiline, his beard neglected and mixed with grey: all this contributed to spread a solemn melancholy over his countenance. Pythagoras was not more silent, Pyrrho more motionless, nor Zeno more austere. His wig was black and smooth as the plumes of a raven, and hung as straight as the hair of a river god rising from the water. His cloak so completely covered his whole person, that whether or no he had any other clothes (much less any linen) under it, 1 shall not say; but his sword appeared a full yard behind him, and his manner of rearing it was so stiff, that it seemed grown to hia thigh. His whole figure was so utterly unlike any thing of this world, that it was not natural for any man to ask him a question without blessing himself first. Those who never saw a Jesuit, lock him for one, and others believed him some High Priest of the Jews. - But under this macerated form was concealed a mind .replete with science, burning with a zeal el benefiting his fellow-creatures, and filled with an honest conscious pride, mixed with a scorn of doing at suffering the least thing beneath the dignity of a philosopher. Accordingly he had a soul that would not let him accept of any offers of charity, at the same time that his body seemed but too mu...