Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... favours , and he had dedicated his Shepherd's Week to Bolingbroke , which Swift considered as the crime that ... favour , that both the Prince and Princess went to see his What d'ye call it , a kind of mock - tragedy , in which ...
... favours , and he had dedicated his Shepherd's Week to Bolingbroke , which Swift considered as the crime that ... favour , that both the Prince and Princess went to see his What d'ye call it , a kind of mock - tragedy , in which ...
Page 66
... favour , and undertook ( 1726 ) to write a volume of Fables for the improvement of the young duke of Cumberland . For this he is said to have been promised a reward , which he had doubtless magnified with all the wild expectations of ...
... favour , and undertook ( 1726 ) to write a volume of Fables for the improvement of the young duke of Cumberland . For this he is said to have been promised a reward , which he had doubtless magnified with all the wild expectations of ...
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... favour , yet untaken , I besiege . * If this song lives , Posterity shall know One , though in Britain born , with courtiers bred , Who thought ev'n gold might come a day too late ; Nor on his subtle death - bed plann'd his scheme For ...
... favour , yet untaken , I besiege . * If this song lives , Posterity shall know One , though in Britain born , with courtiers bred , Who thought ev'n gold might come a day too late ; Nor on his subtle death - bed plann'd his scheme For ...
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