Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... night he would go to a penny lodging , where he purchased clean sheets for sixpence 3 . This practice Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through ...
... night he would go to a penny lodging , where he purchased clean sheets for sixpence 3 . This practice Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through ...
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... night , being recalled by a hundred letters . ' lb. xix . 72. He stayed nearly three months . He was appointed on April 23 , 1713 , and started for Dublin on June 1. Ib . iii . 151 , 157. Lewis ( ante , GAY , 13 ) wrote to recall him on ...
... night , being recalled by a hundred letters . ' lb. xix . 72. He stayed nearly three months . He was appointed on April 23 , 1713 , and started for Dublin on June 1. Ib . iii . 151 , 157. Lewis ( ante , GAY , 13 ) wrote to recall him on ...
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... night and part of the next day . There was reason enough to fear that he had betrayed his master for the reward ; but he came home , and the Dean ordered him to put off his livery and leave the house , ' for , ' says he , ' I know that ...
... night and part of the next day . There was reason enough to fear that he had betrayed his master for the reward ; but he came home , and the Dean ordered him to put off his livery and leave the house , ' for , ' says he , ' I know that ...
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... night by a broom bush , and found , when daylight appeared , he was within two inches of the ground . ' Works , xvi . 412 . 2'He was known over the whole kingdom by the title of THE DEAN ; and when THE DEAN was mentioned , it always ...
... night by a broom bush , and found , when daylight appeared , he was within two inches of the ground . ' Works , xvi . 412 . 2'He was known over the whole kingdom by the title of THE DEAN ; and when THE DEAN was mentioned , it always ...
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... night , in the year of our Lord 17- ? 2 Post , POPE , 141. Ford described these Miscellanies to Swift in 1733 as ' that jumble with Pope , & c . , in three volumes , which put me in a rage whenever I meet them . ' Works , xviii . 158 ...
... night , in the year of our Lord 17- ? 2 Post , POPE , 141. Ford described these Miscellanies to Swift in 1733 as ' that jumble with Pope , & c . , in three volumes , which put me in a rage whenever I meet them . ' Works , xviii . 158 ...
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