The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I N the reign of Qgeen anne, (which, notwithftand ing thofe happy times which fucceeded, ever En glilhman may remember) thou mayfi poflibly, ent erea der, have feen a certain venerable perfon who requented the outfide of the palace of St. James's, and who, by the gravity of his deportment and habit, was generally taken for a decayed gentleman of Spain. His Rature was tall. His vifage long, his complexion olive, his brows were black and even, his eyes hollow yet piercing, his hofe ia clined to a uiline, h1s beard neglefled and mixed with grey. All iliis contributed to fpread a folemn melancholy over his countenance. Pythagoras was not more hlent, Pyrrho more motionlefs, nor Zeno mor'e aufiere. His wi was as black and finooth as the plumes of a raven, an hung as firait as the hair of a river-god rifing from the water. His cloak (0 completely covered his whole perfon. That whether or no he had any Other cloaths (much lefs any linen) under it, Ifhall not fay; but his (word appear cd a full yard behind him, and his manner of wearing it was (0 fiifi', that it feemed grown to his thigh. His whole figure was (0 utterly unlike any thing of this world, that it was not natural for any man to aflt him a quefiion without blefling himfelf firft. Thofe who never faw a yqfuite, took him for one, and others believed him fome High Pfiffl q/ {be 17mm.

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