Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... hope , that he was a poet , 18 and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple ' , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published a peri- odical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent , by ...
... hope , that he was a poet , 18 and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple ' , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published a peri- odical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent , by ...
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... hope he will continue his command . ' Jan. 7 , 1710-11 . I question whether ever any wise state laid aside a general who had been successful nine years together , whom the enemy so much dreaded , and his own soldiers cannot but believe ...
... hope he will continue his command . ' Jan. 7 , 1710-11 . I question whether ever any wise state laid aside a general who had been successful nine years together , whom the enemy so much dreaded , and his own soldiers cannot but believe ...
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... hope for , if ever it came into their power . ' Ib . iii . 180. Moreover he attacked Swift's patron , Temple , as ' a cor- rupter of all that came near him . ' History of my own Time , i . 423 . In later years Swift wrote of him ...
... hope for , if ever it came into their power . ' Ib . iii . 180. Moreover he attacked Swift's patron , Temple , as ' a cor- rupter of all that came near him . ' History of my own Time , i . 423 . In later years Swift wrote of him ...
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... hope of information ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed he can hardly complain . It is easy to perceive , from every page , that though ambition pressed Swift into a life of bustle , the wish for a ...
... hope of information ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed he can hardly complain . It is easy to perceive , from every page , that though ambition pressed Swift into a life of bustle , the wish for a ...
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... hope- ful situation , torn to pieces by pam- phleteers and libellers on that side the water , and by the whole body of the ruling party on this ; against which all the obscurity I live in will not defend me . ' Works , xvi . 287 . See ...
... hope- ful situation , torn to pieces by pam- phleteers and libellers on that side the water , and by the whole body of the ruling party on this ; against which all the obscurity I live in will not defend me . ' Works , xvi . 287 . See ...
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