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... a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent , by Letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , ' Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet 1o ' ; and try know by this ...
... a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent , by Letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , ' Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet 1o ' ; and try know by this ...
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35 He wrote likewise this year A Vindication of Bickerstaff1 , and an explanation of an Ancient Prophecy , part written after the facts , and the rest never completed , but well planned to excite amazement . 36 Soon after began the busy ...
35 He wrote likewise this year A Vindication of Bickerstaff1 , and an explanation of an Ancient Prophecy , part written after the facts , and the rest never completed , but well planned to excite amazement . 36 Soon after began the busy ...
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Had he but spared his tongue and pen , He might have rose like other men ; But power was never in his thought , And wealth he valued not a groat . ' On April 5 , 1711 , he wrote of the assurances given him by the ministers : They may ...
Had he but spared his tongue and pen , He might have rose like other men ; But power was never in his thought , And wealth he valued not a groat . ' On April 5 , 1711 , he wrote of the assurances given him by the ministers : They may ...
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He wrote to Pope in 1733 : - ' As to mortality it has never been out of my head eighteen minutes these eighteen years . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , vii . 300. The Queen had been dead eighteen years . See also Works , xvii .
He wrote to Pope in 1733 : - ' As to mortality it has never been out of my head eighteen minutes these eighteen years . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , vii . 300. The Queen had been dead eighteen years . See also Works , xvii .
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See Appendix D. " 5 She never came to his house but upon very particular invitation . ' Delany , p . 129 . 6 Deane Swift , p . 92. It seems that she sometimes lodged there when he was in England . He wrote from London on July 7 ...
See Appendix D. " 5 She never came to his house but upon very particular invitation . ' Delany , p . 129 . 6 Deane Swift , p . 92. It seems that she sometimes lodged there when he was in England . He wrote from London on July 7 ...
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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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