Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... SWIFT III I HALIFAX HAMMOND . HUGHES II 41 THOMSON III 281 II 312 TICKELL II 304 II 159 WALLER I 249 KING · II 26 WALSH I 328 LYTTELTON 111 446 WATTS III MALLET III 400 WEST MILTON I 84 YALDEN • OTWAY . I 241 YOUNG 302 III 328 II 297 ...
... SWIFT III I HALIFAX HAMMOND . HUGHES II 41 THOMSON III 281 II 312 TICKELL II 304 II 159 WALLER I 249 KING · II 26 WALSH I 328 LYTTELTON 111 446 WATTS III MALLET III 400 WEST MILTON I 84 YALDEN • OTWAY . I 241 YOUNG 302 III 328 II 297 ...
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... Swift , an ingenious fellow , but the most confounded vain coxcomb in the world , so that I dare not let him see me . ' Swift's Works , iii . 125. His character of Smith is pre- fixed to Smith's Works , ed . 1719 . 3 The Genuineness of ...
... Swift , an ingenious fellow , but the most confounded vain coxcomb in the world , so that I dare not let him see me . ' Swift's Works , iii . 125. His character of Smith is pre- fixed to Smith's Works , ed . 1719 . 3 The Genuineness of ...
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... Swift in 1736 - ' It grieves me to think that over Virgil and Horace Rag and Philips smoked many a pipe , and drank many a quart with me , besides the expense of a bushel of nuts , and that now I am scarce able to relish their beauties ...
... Swift in 1736 - ' It grieves me to think that over Virgil and Horace Rag and Philips smoked many a pipe , and drank many a quart with me , besides the expense of a bushel of nuts , and that now I am scarce able to relish their beauties ...
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... Swift's Journal " . 1 Eng . Poets , xxv . 166 . 2 He took orders before the acces- sion of James II . In 1687 he became Rector of Blaby in Leicestershire , and in 1688 Prebendary of Gloucester . Dict . Nat . Biog . 3 Luttrell ( vi . 332 ) ...
... Swift's Journal " . 1 Eng . Poets , xxv . 166 . 2 He took orders before the acces- sion of James II . In 1687 he became Rector of Blaby in Leicestershire , and in 1688 Prebendary of Gloucester . Dict . Nat . Biog . 3 Luttrell ( vi . 332 ) ...
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... Swift addressed to Molesworth the fifth Drapier Letter . In it he says : - ' I have buried at the bottom of a strong chest your Lordship's writings , under a heap of others that treat of liberty , and spread over a layer or two of ...
... Swift addressed to Molesworth the fifth Drapier Letter . In it he says : - ' I have buried at the bottom of a strong chest your Lordship's writings , under a heap of others that treat of liberty , and spread over a layer or two of ...
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