Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... 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 trans- position of ...
... 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 trans- position of ...
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... appeared to retain in his last years 3 . Swift contrived an interview , from which they both departed discontented ; he procured a second , which only convinced him that the feud was irreconcilable : he told them his opinion , that all ...
... appeared to retain in his last years 3 . Swift contrived an interview , from which they both departed discontented ; he procured a second , which only convinced him that the feud was irreconcilable : he told them his opinion , that all ...
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... appeared under the title of Free Thoughts on the present State of Affairs3 . While he was waiting in this retirement for events which time or chance might bring to pass , the death of the Queen broke down at once the whole system of ...
... appeared under the title of Free Thoughts on the present State of Affairs3 . While he was waiting in this retirement for events which time or chance might bring to pass , the death of the Queen broke down at once the whole system of ...
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... 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 recom- mended by the peculiar neatness and pleasantry of his ...
... 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 recom- mended by the peculiar neatness and pleasantry of his ...
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... 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 by this outrageous resentment turned upon the proposal ...
... 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 by this outrageous resentment turned upon the proposal ...
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