Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... given .... Nothing that could be called insanity came on , until this physical and local malady produced paralysis , a symptom of which was the not un- common one of aphasia .... As a con- sequence of that paralysis , but not before ...
... given .... Nothing that could be called insanity came on , until this physical and local malady produced paralysis , a symptom of which was the not un- common one of aphasia .... As a con- sequence of that paralysis , but not before ...
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... given reason for complaint , is said to have made him Deputy Master of the Rolls in Ireland ' , which , according to his kinsman's account , was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore resolved to enter into ...
... given reason for complaint , is said to have made him Deputy Master of the Rolls in Ireland ' , which , according to his kinsman's account , was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore resolved to enter into ...
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... given . Craik , p . 516. Sheridan adds that Bush , with Berkeley's knowledge , told Swift that he could still have the Deanery if he would lay down £ 1,000 . To which he made no other answer but this : - " God confound dismissed with ...
... given . Craik , p . 516. Sheridan adds that Bush , with Berkeley's knowledge , told Swift that he could still have the Deanery if he would lay down £ 1,000 . To which he made no other answer but this : - " God confound dismissed with ...
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... given to one affords all the rest a reason for complaint . ' When I give away a place , ' said Lewis XIV . , ' I make an hundred discontented , and one ungrateful " . ' Much has been said of the equality and independence which 52 he ...
... given to one affords all the rest a reason for complaint . ' When I give away a place , ' said Lewis XIV . , ' I make an hundred discontented , and one ungrateful " . ' Much has been said of the equality and independence which 52 he ...
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... given away ; and the friends of Power may , if there be no inherent disqualification , reasonably expect them . Swift accepted ( 1713 ) the deanery of St. Patrick , the best preferment that his friends could venture to give him . That ...
... given away ; and the friends of Power may , if there be no inherent disqualification , reasonably expect them . Swift accepted ( 1713 ) the deanery of St. Patrick , the best preferment that his friends could venture to give him . That ...
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