 | 1809 - Страниц: 1162
...denunciation, that he would never be a poet. One of his first acknowledged productions was * A Discourse on the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons of Athens and Rome,' a grave, serious essay, which exhibits strong powers of discrimination and reflection, but is not enlivened... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - Страниц: 624
...first entered on the stage as a political writer, by a pamphlet in behalf of the ministers, entitled, Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons...— a work of no great force. In 1704, he published, anonymously, his famous Tale of a Tub, of which, although he would never own it, he is the undoubted... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - Страниц: 844
...for Swift, unlike his friend Pope, came but slowly to the maturity of his powers. The treatise was . Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send Home.' It is plainly written, without irony or eloquence. One sentence — the last in the fourth chapter... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - Страниц: 620
...first entered on the stage as a political writer, by a pamphlet in behalf of the ministers, entitled, Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons...— a work of no great force. In 1704, he published, anonymously, his famous Tale of a Tub, of which, although he would never own ir, he is the undoubted... | |
 | 1847 - Страниц: 774
...Unter feinen übrigen ja()Irei* феп ©Driften finb bie widjtigffen feine poiitifcfjen ©cfiriften „Discourse of the contests and dissensions between the nobles and commons of Athens and Rome" (170 1); „Sentiments of a Church-of- England-man in respect to religion and government" (I708)j „The... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 706
...Low Church divines universally ffhigt." — Scott's Life, 2nd edit.: Edin. 1824, p. 76. See Swift's Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons of Atheni and Rome : Lond. 1701. In his quaint Argument against abolishing Christianity, Lond. 1708, the... | |
 | 1857 - Страниц: 574
...parsonage-house during his absence; and this mysterious connexion lasted till her death. In 1701 he took his doctor's degree, and the same year, being...although he would never own it, he is the undoubted author. This very original piece of humour, while it advanced his reputation as a wit, did him no small... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - Страниц: 436
...the Low Church divines universally Whigs. — Scott's Life, 2d edit. Edin. 1824, p. 76. See Swift's Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons of Athens and Rome : Lond. 1701. In his quaint Argument against abolishing Christianity, Lond. 1708, the following passage... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - Страниц: 894
...ho made the first of a number of annual visits to England, and published anonymously in London his "Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons of Athens and Rome," vindicating the conduct of the whig leaders, Somera, Halifax, Tlarley. and Portland, in respect to... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1862 - Страниц: 878
...he made the first of a number of annual visits to England, and published anonymously in London his " Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons of Athens and Rome," vindicating the conduct of the whig leaders, Somers, Halifax, Harley, and Portland, in respect to the... | |
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A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons of Athens and Rome, 
