 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan - 1729 - 236 pages
...new Ones in their Stead; the Families of Farmers who pay great Rents, living in Filth and Naftinefs upon Butter-milk and Potatoes, without a Shoe or Stocking to their Feet, or a Houfe fo convenient as an Englijh Hogfty to receive them: Thefe indeed may be comfortable Sights to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan - 1730 - 284 pages
...Stead ; the Families of Farmers who pay great Rents, living in Filth and Nartinels upon Butter -milk and Potatoes, without a Shoe or Stocking to their Feet, or a Houfe fo convenient as an EnglijJj Hogfty to receive them : Thefe indeed may be comfortable Sights... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1735 - 422 pages
...new ones in their Stead. The Families of Farmers, who pay great Rents, living in Filth and Naftinefs upon Buttermilk and Potatoes, without a Shoe or Stocking to their Feet ; or a Houfe fo convenient as an Englijfr Hog-fty, to receive them. Thefe, indeed, may be comfortable Sights... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 400 pages
...ones in cheir Stead. The Families of Farmers who pay great great Rents living in Filth and Naftinefs upon Butter-milk and Potatoes, without a Shoe or Stocking to their Feet ; or a Houfe fo convenient as an Enrlijb Hog-fty, to receive them. Thefe, indeed, may bz comfortable Sights... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 pages
...old seats .of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and...convenient as an English hogsty to receive them. These indeed may be comfortable sights to an English spectator ; who comes for a short time, only to learn... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 pages
...new ones in their stead ; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and pastiness upon buttermilk and potatoes, without a shoe or stocking...convenient as an English hogsty to receive them. These indeed may be comfortable sights to an English spectator ; who comes for a short time, only to learn... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 636 pages
...in Lapland or Iceland, rather than in a country sa favoured by nature as ours, both in fruitfuluess of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable...their feet, or a house so convenient as an English hog-stie to receive them. These," says Swift, " are the comfortable sights which await an absentee... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1811 - 590 pages
...old scats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead. The families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and...convenient as an English hog-sty, to receive them. These, indeed may be comfortable sights to an English spectator, who comes for a short time, only to learn... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 378 pages
...old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in •filth and...convenient as an English hog-sty to receive them. These indeed may be comfortable sights to an English spectator ; win comes for a short time, only to learn... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 352 pages
...new ones in their stead ; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and nastinees upon buttermilk and potatoes, without a shoe or stocking to their feet, or a house so convenient as au English hog -sty to receive them. These indeed maybe comfortable sights to an English spectator;... | |
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The miserable dress, and diet, and dwelling of the people; the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom; the old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living... 
