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... SWIFT 250 • • J. PHILIPS 85 BROOME • 253264 WALSH 91 POPE 256 266 • DRYDEN • SMITH DUKE KING SPRAT • HALIFAX PARNELL • C GARTH ( ib . PITT • • • 314 134 THOMSON 315 • • 142 WATTS • • 320 • • 144 143 А. PHILIPS 323 WEST 326 • • 118 DER ...
... SWIFT 250 • • J. PHILIPS 85 BROOME • 253264 WALSH 91 POPE 256 266 • DRYDEN • SMITH DUKE KING SPRAT • HALIFAX PARNELL • C GARTH ( ib . PITT • • • 314 134 THOMSON 315 • • 142 WATTS • • 320 • • 144 143 А. PHILIPS 323 WEST 326 • • 118 DER ...
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... Swift in the ministry of Oxford ; but it has never since been publicly mentioned , though at that time great expectations were formed by some of its establishment and its ef- fects . Such a society might , perhaps , without much ...
... Swift in the ministry of Oxford ; but it has never since been publicly mentioned , though at that time great expectations were formed by some of its establishment and its ef- fects . Such a society might , perhaps , without much ...
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... swift as winde , Nor euer staid , nor euer lookt behinde . III . Through thicke and thinne , all night , all day , she driued , Withouten comfort , companie , or guide , Her plaints and teares with euery thought reuiued , She heard and ...
... swift as winde , Nor euer staid , nor euer lookt behinde . III . Through thicke and thinne , all night , all day , she driued , Withouten comfort , companie , or guide , Her plaints and teares with euery thought reuiued , She heard and ...
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... History , vol . ii . p . 396 , edit . 8vo . 1775. Mr. Cole says , the Poet's father was a grocer . Cole's MSS . in Brit . Mus.-C. lege , he went at nineteen to Cambridge , where 84 STEPNEY . ib SAVAGE 214 STEPNEY SWIFT.
... History , vol . ii . p . 396 , edit . 8vo . 1775. Mr. Cole says , the Poet's father was a grocer . Cole's MSS . in Brit . Mus.-C. lege , he went at nineteen to Cambridge , where 84 STEPNEY . ib SAVAGE 214 STEPNEY SWIFT.
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... Swift Jordan started , and straight backward fled , Hiding amongst thick reeds his aged head . And when the Spaniards their assault begin , At once beat those without and those within . " This Almanzor speaks of himself ; and sure for ...
... Swift Jordan started , and straight backward fled , Hiding amongst thick reeds his aged head . And when the Spaniards their assault begin , At once beat those without and those within . " This Almanzor speaks of himself ; and sure for ...
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