Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... reason " . Swift tells us that when Temple , at the age of forty - seven , had the gout ' he grew very melancholy . He said a man was never good for any- thing after it .... Nobody , ' he added , ' should make love after forty , nor be ...
... reason " . Swift tells us that when Temple , at the age of forty - seven , had the gout ' he grew very melancholy . He said a man was never good for any- thing after it .... Nobody , ' he added , ' should make love after forty , nor be ...
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... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
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... reasons . ' SWIFT , Works , xii . 158 . 6 Craik , p . 516 ; Works , 1803 , i . 108. Berkeley , in 1699 , was made one of the three Lords Justices ( ante , TICKELL , 16 ) . Craik , p . 515. For The Discovery , satirical lines on him and ...
... reasons . ' SWIFT , Works , xii . 158 . 6 Craik , p . 516 ; Works , 1803 , i . 108. Berkeley , in 1699 , was made one of the three Lords Justices ( ante , TICKELL , 16 ) . Craik , p . 515. For The Discovery , satirical lines on him and ...
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... reason to conceal himself because of the prophane stories , which would do his reputa- tion and interest in the world more harm than the wit can do him good . ' If it ' I doubt , ' said Johnson , ' if it was his ; it has so much more ...
... reason to conceal himself because of the prophane stories , which would do his reputa- tion and interest in the world more harm than the wit can do him good . ' If it ' I doubt , ' said Johnson , ' if it was his ; it has so much more ...
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... reason for expecting 5 . 1 Lord Eldon said much the same in 1828 , when in vain he opposed the abolition of the test . ' He had never desired to retain the sacramental test , if any other equivalent security could be substituted ...
... reason for expecting 5 . 1 Lord Eldon said much the same in 1828 , when in vain he opposed the abolition of the test . ' He had never desired to retain the sacramental test , if any other equivalent security could be substituted ...
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