Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... praise a comparison of Arbuthnot's , who , in Nov. 1723 , wrote to Swift : - ' You are in the case of the man who held the whole night by a broom bush , and found , when daylight appeared , he was within two inches of the ground ...
... praise a comparison of Arbuthnot's , who , in Nov. 1723 , wrote to Swift : - ' You are in the case of the man who held the whole night by a broom bush , and found , when daylight appeared , he was within two inches of the ground ...
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... praises ?? As his years increased his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made ... praise from printing that he could not well live without it . ' ' ' In the end he was almost totally engrossed by ...
... praises ?? As his years increased his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made ... praise from printing that he could not well live without it . ' ' ' In the end he was almost totally engrossed by ...
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... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise 2. For purposes merely didactick , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inattention by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise 2. For purposes merely didactick , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inattention by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
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... praise . " ' Delany , p . 15 . ' Dr. Swift does not hate praise ; he only dislikes it when ' tis extravagant or coarse . ' POPE , Spence's Anec . p . 256. See ante , SWIFT , IOI . 2 Johnson at first wrote : - ' as- sumes a style of ...
... praise . " ' Delany , p . 15 . ' Dr. Swift does not hate praise ; he only dislikes it when ' tis extravagant or coarse . ' POPE , Spence's Anec . p . 256. See ante , SWIFT , IOI . 2 Johnson at first wrote : - ' as- sumes a style of ...
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... praise 3 ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his ...
... praise 3 ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his ...
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