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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. AMBORLIAD 21 , 241 144713 HENRY FROWDE , M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON , EDINBURGH NEW YORK AND TORONTO CONTENTS OF VOLUME III * SWIFT Appendices A to J.
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. AMBORLIAD 21 , 241 144713 HENRY FROWDE , M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON , EDINBURGH NEW YORK AND TORONTO CONTENTS OF VOLUME III * SWIFT Appendices A to J.
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Swift wrote from London in 1711 : The young fellows here have begun a kind of fashion to walk , and many of them have got swinging strong shoes on purpose ; it has got as far as several young lords . ' Works , ii . 395.
Swift wrote from London in 1711 : The young fellows here have begun a kind of fashion to walk , and many of them have got swinging strong shoes on purpose ; it has got as far as several young lords . ' Works , ii . 395.
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To Tickell he wrote from London in 1726 : - ' I wonder how you could expect to see Mrs. Johnson in a morning , which I , her oldest acquaintance , have not done these dozen years , except once or twice in a journey . ' Ib . xix . 283 .
To Tickell he wrote from London in 1726 : - ' I wonder how you could expect to see Mrs. Johnson in a morning , which I , her oldest acquaintance , have not done these dozen years , except once or twice in a journey . ' Ib . xix . 283 .
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He attacks the London magistrates who often enrich themselves by encouraging the grossest immoralities ; to whom all the bawds of the ward pay contribution for shelter and protection from the laws . ' Ib . p . 94.
He attacks the London magistrates who often enrich themselves by encouraging the grossest immoralities ; to whom all the bawds of the ward pay contribution for shelter and protection from the laws . ' Ib . p . 94.
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There is nothing wonderful in the journal which we see Swift kept in London , for it con* Printed by Scott drive ; but see Journal to Stella , ed . F. Ryland , p . 460 ' Oct. 22. I will certainly steal away as soon as I decently can .
There is nothing wonderful in the journal which we see Swift kept in London , for it con* Printed by Scott drive ; but see Journal to Stella , ed . F. Ryland , p . 460 ' Oct. 22. I will certainly steal away as soon as I decently can .
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton Volume 3 of Lives of the English Poets, George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1905 |
| Original from | University of California, Berkeley |
| Digitized | 20 Apr 2015 |
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