Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... never was more satisfied than in the behaviour of the University of Oxford to me . ' Works , xv . 244 . Swift wrote from London in 1711 : The young fellows here have begun a kind of fashion to walk , and many of them have got swinging ...
... never was more satisfied than in the behaviour of the University of Oxford to me . ' Works , xv . 244 . Swift wrote from London in 1711 : The young fellows here have begun a kind of fashion to walk , and many of them have got swinging ...
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... never be a poet 10 ' ; and try know by this time whether I am worth keeping ; and it is easier to provide for ten men in the Church than one in a civil employment . ' Works , xv . 420 . 2 Ib . p . 247 . Craik , p . 515. He was ordained ...
... never be a poet 10 ' ; and try know by this time whether I am worth keeping ; and it is easier to provide for ten men in the Church than one in a civil employment . ' Works , xv . 420 . 2 Ib . p . 247 . Craik , p . 515. He was ordained ...
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... never completed , but well planned to excite amazement . Soon after began the busy and important part of Swift's life . He was employed ( 1710 ) by the primate of Ireland3 to solicit the Queen for a remission of the First Fruits and ...
... never completed , but well planned to excite amazement . Soon after began the busy and important part of Swift's life . He was employed ( 1710 ) by the primate of Ireland3 to solicit the Queen for a remission of the First Fruits and ...
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... never in his thought , And wealth he valued not a groat . ' On April 5 , 1711 , he wrote of the assurances given him by the minis- ters : They may come to nothing , but the first opportunity that offers , and is neglected , I shall ...
... never in his thought , And wealth he valued not a groat . ' On April 5 , 1711 , he wrote of the assurances given him by the minis- ters : They may come to nothing , but the first opportunity that offers , and is neglected , I shall ...
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... never been out of my head eighteen minutes these eighteen years . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , vii . 300. The Queen had been dead eighteen years . See also Works , xvii . 234 , xviii . 107 . ' The whole of life , ' said ...
... never been out of my head eighteen minutes these eighteen years . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , vii . 300. The Queen had been dead eighteen years . See also Works , xvii . 234 , xviii . 107 . ' The whole of life , ' said ...
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