Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... passage in it deserves to be selected . ' If Christianity were once abolished , how could the free- thinkers , the strong reasoners , and the men of profound learning be able to find another subject so calculated , in all points ...
... passage in it deserves to be selected . ' If Christianity were once abolished , how could the free- thinkers , the strong reasoners , and the men of profound learning be able to find another subject so calculated , in all points ...
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... passages , but I should not care to read it again . ' G.M.Berkeley's Literary Relics , p.341 . Voltaire wrote of it in 1759 : - ' Pascal n'amuse qu'aux dépens des jésuites ; Swift divertit et instruit aux dépens du genre humain ...
... passages , but I should not care to read it again . ' G.M.Berkeley's Literary Relics , p.341 . Voltaire wrote of it in 1759 : - ' Pascal n'amuse qu'aux dépens des jésuites ; Swift divertit et instruit aux dépens du genre humain ...
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... passage is always on a level , along solid ground , without asperities , without obstruction . 114 115 This easy and ... passages are rare . 1 Post , SWIFT , 139 . For Swift's ' good neat style ' see Boswell's Johnson , ii . 191. ' It ...
... passage is always on a level , along solid ground , without asperities , without obstruction . 114 115 This easy and ... passages are rare . 1 Post , SWIFT , 139 . For Swift's ' good neat style ' see Boswell's Johnson , ii . 191. ' It ...
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... passages of gaiety , ' and laughter is several times mentioned . - Oct . 28 , 1710 , ' We were very merry talking of old things Dec. 31 , 1710 , ' So we laughed ' ; Feb. 25 , 1711 , ' So we laughed .... And we were so merry : I vow they ...
... passages of gaiety , ' and laughter is several times mentioned . - Oct . 28 , 1710 , ' We were very merry talking of old things Dec. 31 , 1710 , ' So we laughed ' ; Feb. 25 , 1711 , ' So we laughed .... And we were so merry : I vow they ...
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... passage beginning : — Conversation is but carving . ' ' Swift would not interrupt any body while speaking . ' YOUNG , Spence's Anec . p . 375 . Perhaps he wrote The Tatler , No. 264 , where the writer proposes that at a club ' a watch ...
... passage beginning : — Conversation is but carving . ' ' Swift would not interrupt any body while speaking . ' YOUNG , Spence's Anec . p . 375 . Perhaps he wrote The Tatler , No. 264 , where the writer proposes that at a club ' a watch ...
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