“Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift: Frases em inglês
Jonathan Swift era Escritor anglo-irlandês conhecido pela sua obra "As Viagens de Gulliver". Frases em inglês.Jonathan Swift: 197 citações65 Curtidas
Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh (August 12, 1720)
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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“The sight of you is good for sore eyes.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Jonathan Swift livro A Tale of a Tub
Dedication
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“There's two words to that bargain.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Meditation on a Broomstick (1703–1710)
“I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Introduction.
Polite Conversation (1738)
“There was all the world and his wife.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”
Jonathan Swift livro A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
“We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.”
Journal to Stella (February 1, 1711)
“Lord M. What religion is he of?
Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
My Lady's Lamentation, The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II, edited by William Ernst Browning (1910); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I know nothing of music; I would not give a farthing for all the music in the universe.”
Observations on Lord Orrery's Remarks on Life of Swift, Delany, (1754), p. 192.
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