 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 464 pages
...are * apt to ridicule the fublime platonic notions they had, * or perfonated, in love and friendfhip, I conceive their * refinements were grounded upon...little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to pre* ferve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without ' which it is apt to degenerate into every... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1765 - 304 pages
...love and friendmip, I conceive their reiinements were grounded upon reaibn, and that a little grain of romance is no ill ingredient to preferve and exalt...is fordid, vicious and low. If there were no other Erther ufe in the converfation of ladies, it is Sufficient that it would lay a reftraint upon thofe... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1766 - 378 pages
...are apt to ridicule the fublime Platonic notion? they had, or perforated in love and friendfhip, 1 conceive their ' refinements were grounded upon reafon,...little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to prefer i'e and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into every... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 486 pages
...we are apt to ridicule the fublime platonic notions they had, or perfonated, in love and friendship, I conceive their refinements' were grounded upon reafon,...to preferve and exalt the dignity of human nature, withou t which it is apt to degenerate into every thing that is fordid, vicious and low. If there were... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 pages
...had, or. personated, in love and friendship, I conceive their refinements were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...are apt to ridicule the fublime platonic notions ,they had, or perfonated, in love and friendfhip, I conceive their refinements were grounded upon reafon,...nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into every tiling that is fordid, vicious, and low. If there were no other ufe in the converfation of ladies,... | |
 | 1813 - 778 pages
...the breach than the observance' — as of all the wild schemes of GENT. MAG. June, 1?,J3. pre._. ... and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into every thing that is sordid, vicious, and low.' — The great revolution in government which succeeded this period, not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 pages
...were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of the rorriance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into every thing that is sordid, vicious, and low. If there were no other use in the conversa tion of ladies, it is sufficient... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 pages
...had, or personated, in love and friendship, I conceive their refinements were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into every thing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 564 pages
...had, or personated, in love and friendship, I conceive their refinements were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into every thing... | |
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I conceive their refinements were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious, and low. 
