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... SWIFT · 250 85 BROOME 254 2.64 WALSH DRYDEN • 91 POPE 256 2.66 · ib PITT • 314 SMITH • 134 THOMSON • 315 DUKE · · 142 WATTS 320 KING • 143 A. PHILIPS 323 SPRAT • • · 144 WEST 326 • HALIFAX · • 146 COLLINS 327 • PARNELL 18 DER 329 ...
... SWIFT · 250 85 BROOME 254 2.64 WALSH DRYDEN • 91 POPE 256 2.66 · ib PITT • 314 SMITH • 134 THOMSON • 315 DUKE · · 142 WATTS 320 KING • 143 A. PHILIPS 323 SPRAT • • · 144 WEST 326 • HALIFAX · • 146 COLLINS 327 • PARNELL 18 DER 329 ...
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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 . that Gascoigne , a writer of the sixteenth cen- tury , warns the young poet against affecting it : Shakspeare , in the " Midsummer Night's Dream , " is supposed to ...
... swift as winde , Nor euer staid , nor euer lookt behinde . III . that Gascoigne , a writer of the sixteenth cen- tury , warns the young poet against affecting it : Shakspeare , in the " Midsummer Night's Dream , " is supposed to ...
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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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... Swift , who conversed with Dryden , relates that he regretted the success of his own instructions , and found his readers made suddenly too skilful to be easily satisfied . 66 His prologues had such reputation , that for some time a ...
... Swift , who conversed with Dryden , relates that he regretted the success of his own instructions , and found his readers made suddenly too skilful to be easily satisfied . 66 His prologues had such reputation , that for some time a ...
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