 Lastly, a true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.  The Ohio Journal of Education - Side 1021856Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 sider
...bespatter him most. Lastly, a true critick, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the...and consequently is apt to snarl most, when there are the fewest bones. Thus much, I think, is sufficient to serve byway of address to my patrons, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 sider
...besj/atter him most. Lastly, a (rue Critick, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the...and consequently is apt to snarl most, when there are the fewest bones*. Thus much, I think, is sufficient to serve bv way of address to my patrons,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1812 - 250 sider
...bespatter him most. Lastly. A true critic, m the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the...and consequently is apt to snarl most, when there are the fewest bones.* Thus much, I think, is sufficient to serve by way of address to my patrons,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 442 sider
...bespatter him most. Lastly, a true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the...away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. Thus much, I think, is sufficient to serve by way of address to my patrons, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 sider
...bespatter him most. Lastly, a true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the...away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. Thus much, I think, is sufficient to serve by way of address to my patrons, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 446 sider
...bespatter him most. Lastly, a true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the...guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl nlost when there are the fewest bones. Thus much, I think, is sufficient to serve by way of address... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 sider
...wise face, like Solomon at the dividing of the child in an old tapestry hanging. Way of the World. the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. Tale of a Tub. In the following instances, the ridicule arises from absurd conceptions... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1823 - 418 sider
...hanging. Way of the World. A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the...away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. Tale of a Tub. In the following instances, the ridicule arises from absurd conceptions... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 sider
...the perusal of a book, like a clog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach' are wholly set upon what guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there arc the fewest bones. 5TROUD, ROCHESTER, AND CHATHAM. By a Tourist , in 1790. The people of Strouil... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sider
...in the perusal of a book, like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. — Swift. xcyi. There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day;... | |
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