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... either verse or prose ; of his verses he willingly gave copies , and is supposed to have felt no discontent when he saw them printed 3 . His favourite maxim was ' vive la bagaAccording to Sheridan ' he lent £ 500 in sums of five or ...
... either verse or prose ; of his verses he willingly gave copies , and is supposed to have felt no discontent when he saw them printed 3 . His favourite maxim was ' vive la bagaAccording to Sheridan ' he lent £ 500 in sums of five or ...
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... he continues :' And yet I love la bagatelle better than ever ; for finding it troublesome to read at night , and the company here growing tasteless , I am always writing bad prose or worse verses , either of rage or raillery .
... he continues :' And yet I love la bagatelle better than ever ; for finding it troublesome to read at night , and the company here growing tasteless , I am always writing bad prose or worse verses , either of rage or raillery .
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Swift wrote to St. John : - ' I will read verses in your presence until you snatch them out of my hands . ' Works , xv . 426. He wrote to Stella : - ' Mr. Harley made me read a paper of verses of Prior's .
Swift wrote to St. John : - ' I will read verses in your presence until you snatch them out of my hands . ' Works , xv . 426. He wrote to Stella : - ' Mr. Harley made me read a paper of verses of Prior's .
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3 Adam Smith wrote in 1759 :' Mr. Pope and Dr. Swift have each of them introduced a manner different from what was practised before into all works that are written in rhyme , the one in long verses , the other in short .
3 Adam Smith wrote in 1759 :' Mr. Pope and Dr. Swift have each of them introduced a manner different from what was practised before into all works that are written in rhyme , the one in long verses , the other in short .
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When the success of the Iliad gave encouragement to a version of the Odyssey Pope , weary of the toil , called Fenton and Broome to his assistance , and , taking only half the work upon I [ Into blank verse . It was published in 1712 in ...
When the success of the Iliad gave encouragement to a version of the Odyssey Pope , weary of the toil , called Fenton and Broome to his assistance , and , taking only half the work upon I [ Into blank verse . It was published in 1712 in ...
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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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