 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 318 pages
...for taking notice of a poor old distressed courtier, commonly the most despisable thing in the world. This blow has so roused Scriblerus that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. Fiom being frolickso:;ie and gay, he is turned grave and morose. His lucubration* lie neglected among... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 478 pages
...Tories, heightened and continued the animosity of both parties. WARTOX. despisable thing in the world. This blow has so roused Scriblerus, that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. From being frolicksome and gay, he is turned grave and morose. His lucubrations lie neglected, among... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 478 pages
...continued the animosity of both parties. WARTOX. despisable despisable thing in the world. This blow has s* roused Scriblerus, that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. From being frolicksome and gay, he is turned grave and morose. His lucubrations lie neglected, among... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pages
...for taking notice of a poor old distressed courtier, commonly the most despisable thing in the world. This blow has so roused Scriblerus, that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. From being frolicsome and gay, he is turned grave and morose. His lucubrations lie neglected among... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 362 pages
...distressed courtier, commonly the most dcspiseable thing in the world. This blow has so roused Scribkrus, that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. From being frolicksome and gay he is turned grave and morose. His lucubrations lie neglected among... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 366 pages
...distressed courtier, commonly the most despisable thing in the world. This blow has so roused ScribIfrus that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. From being frolicksome and gay, he is turned grave and morose. His lucubrations lie neglected among... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 pages
...the Earl of Oxford, to afford speculation to his prosecutors.* • London, 7th Sept. 1714. Arbuthnot to Pope.—" This blow has so roused Scriblerus, that...recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. His lucubrations he neglected among old newspapers, cases, petitions, and abundance of unanswerable... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...for taking notice of a poor old distressed courtier, commonly the most despisable thing in the world. This blow has so roused Scriblerus, that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. From being frolicksome and gay, he is turned grave and morose. His lucubrations lie neglected, among... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...speculation to his prosecutors.* * London, rth Sept. 1714. Arbuthnot to Pope.—" This blow has so ronsed Scriblerus, that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. His lucubrations he neglected among old newspapers, cases, petitions, and abundance of unanswerable... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...taking notice of a poor, old, distressed courtier, commonly the most despicable thing in the world. This blow has so roused Scriblerus, that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. From being frolicksome and gay, he is turned grave and morose. * * * Martin's office is now the second... | |
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His lucubrations lie neglected among old news-papers, cases, petitions, and abundance of unanswerable letters. I wish to God they had been among the papers of a noble Lord sealed up. Then might Scriblerus have passed for the Pretender, and... 
