Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 193
... Swift his uncle , who had supported him , left without subsistence , he went to consult his mother , who then lived at Leicester , about the future course of his life , and by her direction ... Swift by offering to make him SWIFT 193.
... Swift his uncle , who had supported him , left without subsistence , he went to consult his mother , who then lived at Leicester , about the future course of his life , and by her direction ... Swift by offering to make him SWIFT 193.
Page 196
... Swift , you will never be a poet ' ; and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift , for whom he had obtained , from King ...
... Swift , you will never be a poet ' ; and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift , for whom he had obtained , from King ...
Page 215
... Swift himself has collected afford no splendid specimen . The reader of Swift's Letter to a Lady on her Marriage may be allowed to doubt whether his opinion of female excellence ought implicitly to be admitted ; for if his general ...
... Swift himself has collected afford no splendid specimen . The reader of Swift's Letter to a Lady on her Marriage may be allowed to doubt whether his opinion of female excellence ought implicitly to be admitted ; for if his general ...
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