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Swift's first Examiner appeared on Nov. 2 . 3 Ante , ROSCOMmon , 14 ; Prior , 15 ; Works , ix . 133. It was published , not the next year , but in 1712. In Johnson's Works , 1825 , viii . 202 , the mistake is corrected by a silent ...
Swift's first Examiner appeared on Nov. 2 . 3 Ante , ROSCOMmon , 14 ; Prior , 15 ; Works , ix . 133. It was published , not the next year , but in 1712. In Johnson's Works , 1825 , viii . 202 , the mistake is corrected by a silent ...
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... was recalled to England ' , that he might reconcile Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with malevolence , which every day increased 2 , and which Bolingbroke appeared to retain in his last years 3 .
... was recalled to England ' , that he might reconcile Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with malevolence , which every day increased 2 , and which Bolingbroke appeared to retain in his last years 3 .
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... he retired about June ( 1714 ) into Berkshire , where , in the house of a friend , he wrote what was then suppressed , but has since appeared under the title of Free Thoughts on the present State of Affairs3 .
... he retired about June ( 1714 ) into Berkshire , where , in the house of a friend , he wrote what was then suppressed , but has since appeared under the title of Free Thoughts on the present State of Affairs3 .
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On his publick days she regulated the table , but appeared at it as a mere guest , like other ladies 3 . On other days he often dined , at a stated price , with Mr. 68 Worral , a clergyman of his cathedral , whose house was recommended ...
On his publick days she regulated the table , but appeared at it as a mere guest , like other ladies 3 . On other days he often dined , at a stated price , with Mr. 68 Worral , a clergyman of his cathedral , whose house was recommended ...
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But to excite this passion , and enforce this right , appeared so criminal to those who had an interest in the English trade , that the printer was imprisoned1 ; and , as Hawkesworth justly observes , the attention of the publick being ...
But to excite this passion , and enforce this right , appeared so criminal to those who had an interest in the English trade , that the printer was imprisoned1 ; and , as Hawkesworth justly observes , the attention of the publick being ...
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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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