Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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JONATHAN SWIFT.  1667-1745.

I 've often wish'd that I had clear,

For life, six hundred pounds a year;

A handsome house to lodge a friend;

A river at my garden's end;

A terrace walk, and half a rood

Of land set out to plant a wood.

Imitation of Horace, Book ii. Sat. 6.

So geographers, in Afric maps,

With savage pictures fill their gaps,