Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through all its varieties ; and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a passion which seems to have ...
... Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through all its varieties ; and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a passion which seems to have ...
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... Lord Capel , he obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor of about a hundred pounds a year 2 . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so 17 necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English ...
... Lord Capel , he obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor of about a hundred pounds a year 2 . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so 17 necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English ...
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... Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with malevolence , which every day increased , and which Bolingbroke appeared to retain in his last years 3 . Swift contrived an interview , from which they both ...
... Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with malevolence , which every day increased , and which Bolingbroke appeared to retain in his last years 3 . Swift contrived an interview , from which they both ...
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... Lord Orrery and Dr. Delany , are so different , that the credit of the writers , both undoubtedly veracious , cannot be saved but by supposing , what I think is true , that they speak of different times . When Delany says that he was ...
... Lord Orrery and Dr. Delany , are so different , that the credit of the writers , both undoubtedly veracious , cannot be saved but by supposing , what I think is true , that they speak of different times . When Delany says that he was ...
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... Lord Orrery and Dr. Kings . A book under that title was published , with Swift's * ' The common people were taught ... lord mayor of 120 houses ; I am absolute lord of the greatest cathedral in the kingdom ; am at peace with the ...
... Lord Orrery and Dr. Kings . A book under that title was published , with Swift's * ' The common people were taught ... lord mayor of 120 houses ; I am absolute lord of the greatest cathedral in the kingdom ; am at peace with the ...
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