Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... 8 Deane Swift , App . p . 49 . 9 He wrote to Lord Peterborough in 1711 : My ambition is to live in England , and with a competency to support me with honour . The minis- than of the chaplainship to the Factory at Lisbon ' 6 SWIFT.
... 8 Deane Swift , App . p . 49 . 9 He wrote to Lord Peterborough in 1711 : My ambition is to live in England , and with a competency to support me with honour . The minis- than of the chaplainship to the Factory at Lisbon ' 6 SWIFT.
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... honours due to learning have been justly distributed by the decision of posterity * . The Battle of the Books is so like the Combat des Livres , 29 which the same question concerning the Ancients and Moderns had produced in France ...
... honours due to learning have been justly distributed by the decision of posterity * . The Battle of the Books is so like the Combat des Livres , 29 which the same question concerning the Ancients and Moderns had produced in France ...
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... honour done him , Because a duke was proud to own him ; Would rather slip aside , and choose To talk with wits in dirty shoes . ' Ib . xiv . 330 . ' JOHNSON . Sir , I would no more deprive a nobleman of his re- spect than of his money ...
... honour done him , Because a duke was proud to own him ; Would rather slip aside , and choose To talk with wits in dirty shoes . ' Ib . xiv . 330 . ' JOHNSON . Sir , I would no more deprive a nobleman of his re- spect than of his money ...
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... honours , and yet who was jealous of one and fond of the other , even to ridicule . ' Ib . xviii . 196. See also ib . v . 277 , xvii . 251 . This meeting was in May , 1714 . Swift , in 1737 , described it in a letter to Oxford's son ...
... honours , and yet who was jealous of one and fond of the other , even to ridicule . ' Ib . xviii . 196. See also ib . v . 277 , xvii . 251 . This meeting was in May , 1714 . Swift , in 1737 , described it in a letter to Oxford's son ...
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... honoured . There my informer often saw her ; and , I have reason to believe , used his utmost endeavours to relieve , support , and amuse her in this sad situation . written 14 years ago at Windsor . ' Works , xix . 283. This places its ...
... honoured . There my informer often saw her ; and , I have reason to believe , used his utmost endeavours to relieve , support , and amuse her in this sad situation . written 14 years ago at Windsor . ' Works , xix . 283. This places its ...
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