 But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.  The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin - Halaman 82oleh Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 halaman
...the nation of so grievous an encumbrance. But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying,...rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the younger labourers they are now in almost as hopeful... | |
 | Mary Dorothy George - 1925 - 514 halaman
...who are aged, diseased or maimed ; but let them not have the least pain upon that head, because it is well known that they are every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, filth and vermin, as fast as can reasonably be expected, and as to the young labourers, they are now... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1974 - 310 halaman
...proved here to be an especially useful tool for portraying Swift's savage indignation. A simple attack ("every Day dying, and rotting, by Cold and Famine, and Filth, and Vermin") could have been powerful, but it would be impossible to sustain its interest for more than a few pages.... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1974 - 310 halaman
...that Swift concurs with the speaker's distress about a country where the aged, diseased, and maimed are "every Day dying, and rotting, by Cold and Famine, and Filth, and Vermin. . . ." And it is this confidence that enables us to make that glorious ironic leap upward to the ironic... | |
 | Shirley Morahan - 1981 - 334 halaman
...the nation of so grievous an encumbrance. But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying...rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the younger laborers, they are now in almost as hopeful... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 halaman
...nation of so grievous an encumbrance. But I am not in the least pain upon 155 that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying,...rotting, by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the younger labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful... | |
 | Dominic Baker-Smith, C. C. Barfoot - 1987 - 240 halaman
...Number of Children” is a “very great additional Grievance”, though the old are no problem, who “are every Day dying, and rotting, by Cold and Famine, and Filth, and Vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected” (Works, XII, 109, 114). It was as the Drapier, stirring up resistance... | |
 | Dominic Baker-Smith, C. C. Barfoot - 1987 - 240 halaman
..."prodigious Number of Children" is a "very great additional Grievance", though the old are no problem, who "are every Day dying, and rotting, by Cold and Famine, and Filth, and Vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected" (Works' XII, 109, 114). It was as the Drapier, stirring up resistance... | |
 | Deane W. Curtin, Lisa M. Heldke - 1992 - 412 halaman
...the Nation of so grevious an Incumbrance. But I am not in the least Pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every Day dying,...rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the younger Labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful... | |
 | Gloria Levine, Princeton Review (Firm) - 2003 - 271 halaman
...the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying,...rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the young labourers, they are no win almost as hopeful... | |
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