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He resolved from that time to study eight hours a - day , and continued his industry for seven years , with what improvement is sufficiently known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition ...
He resolved from that time to study eight hours a - day , and continued his industry for seven years , with what improvement is sufficiently known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition ...
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In this course of daily application he continued three years 6 longer at Dublin ; and in this time , if the observation and memory of an old companion may be trusted , he drew the first sketch of his Tale of a Tub2 .
In this course of daily application he continued three years 6 longer at Dublin ; and in this time , if the observation and memory of an old companion may be trusted , he drew the first sketch of his Tale of a Tub2 .
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Being much oppressed at Moor - park by this grievous malady , 12 he was advised to try his native air ' , and went to Ireland ; but , finding no benefit , returned to Sir William , at whose house he continued his studies , and is known ...
Being much oppressed at Moor - park by this grievous malady , 12 he was advised to try his native air ' , and went to Ireland ; but , finding no benefit , returned to Sir William , at whose house he continued his studies , and is known ...
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... and that it would have been continued without end if he could have continued his annual plunder . 1 Ante , PRIOR , 21 ; Works , iv . 291. Swift wrote on Nov. 27 , 1711 : - " The pamphlet is published . ' Ib . ii . 413.
... and that it would have been continued without end if he could have continued his annual plunder . 1 Ante , PRIOR , 21 ; Works , iv . 291. Swift wrote on Nov. 27 , 1711 : - " The pamphlet is published . ' Ib . ii . 413.
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sents himself as sufficiently diligent ; and desires to have others believe , what he probably believed himself , that by his interposition many Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places ' .
sents himself as sufficiently diligent ; and desires to have others believe , what he probably believed himself , that by his interposition many Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places ' .
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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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