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Sheridan adds that Bush , with Berkeley's knowledge , told Swift that he could still have the Deanery ' if he would lay down £ 1,000 . To which he made no other answer but this : - " God confound dismissed with the livings of Laracor ...
Sheridan adds that Bush , with Berkeley's knowledge , told Swift that he could still have the Deanery ' if he would lay down £ 1,000 . To which he made no other answer but this : - " God confound dismissed with the livings of Laracor ...
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When he seemed to doubt Burnet's right to the work he was told by the Bishop that he was ' a young man , ' and , still persisting to doubt , that he was ' a very positive young man 3 . ' Three years afterward ( 1704 ) was published The ...
When he seemed to doubt Burnet's right to the work he was told by the Bishop that he was ' a young man , ' and , still persisting to doubt , that he was ' a very positive young man 3 . ' Three years afterward ( 1704 ) was published The ...
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... got myself represented as one extremely ill - used by the last ministry after some obligations , because I renever been told ; what he had suffered was , I 14 SWIFT.
... got myself represented as one extremely ill - used by the last ministry after some obligations , because I renever been told ; what he had suffered was , I 14 SWIFT.
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never been told ; what he had suffered was , I suppose , the exclusion from a bishoprick by the remonstrances of Sharpe , whom he describes as the harmless tool of others ' hate , ' and whom he represents as afterwards ' suing for ...
never been told ; what he had suffered was , I suppose , the exclusion from a bishoprick by the remonstrances of Sharpe , whom he describes as the harmless tool of others ' hate , ' and whom he represents as afterwards ' suing for ...
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Mr. Secretary told me the Duke of Buckingham desired my acquaintance . I answered it could not be , for he had not made sufficient advances . Then the Duke of Shrewsbury said he thought that duke was not used to make advances .
Mr. Secretary told me the Duke of Buckingham desired my acquaintance . I answered it could not be , for he had not made sufficient advances . Then the Duke of Shrewsbury said he thought that duke was not used to make advances .
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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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