Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... thing after it .... Nobody , ' he added , ' should make love after forty , nor be in business after fifty . ' Temple's Works , Pref . p . 27 . 2 Deane Swift , p . 108. See Swift's Works , i . 25 n . , for Swift's making his bookseller ...
... thing after it .... Nobody , ' he added , ' should make love after forty , nor be in business after fifty . ' Temple's Works , Pref . p . 27 . 2 Deane Swift , p . 108. See Swift's Works , i . 25 n . , for Swift's making his bookseller ...
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... things now stand , be attended with some Inconveniences , and per- haps not produce those many good Effects proposed thereby , Works , viii . 61 ; Craik , p . 162 . Works , viii . 339 ; Craik , p . 167 . Swift wrote of it to Archbishop ...
... things now stand , be attended with some Inconveniences , and per- haps not produce those many good Effects proposed thereby , Works , viii . 61 ; Craik , p . 162 . Works , viii . 339 ; Craik , p . 167 . Swift wrote of it to Archbishop ...
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... thing contributed by him to his paper . But he was now im- fused to go certain lengths they would have me . This happened to be in some sort Mr. Harley's own case . ' Works , xv . 364. See also ib . ii . 29 . For his gross flattery of ...
... thing contributed by him to his paper . But he was now im- fused to go certain lengths they would have me . This happened to be in some sort Mr. Harley's own case . ' Works , xv . 364. See also ib . ii . 29 . For his gross flattery of ...
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... things on to extremes against the Whigs ... and get off five or six heads . ' Works , ii . 177. On April 13 he wrote : - ' The Club is about 150. ' Ib . ii . 226. See also ib . iii . 188 , v . 141 , xv . 384 , 400 . Coxe describes him ...
... things on to extremes against the Whigs ... and get off five or six heads . ' Works , ii . 177. On April 13 he wrote : - ' The Club is about 150. ' Ib . ii . 226. See also ib . iii . 188 , v . 141 , xv . 384 , 400 . Coxe describes him ...
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... thing will be serviceable to the Church . ' Works , ii . 37 . Swift was highly offended with the offer , and at first was ' deaf to all entreaties to be reconciled . ' Ib . ii . 164 , 191 . he accepted afterwards a draught of a thousand ...
... thing will be serviceable to the Church . ' Works , ii . 37 . Swift was highly offended with the offer , and at first was ' deaf to all entreaties to be reconciled . ' Ib . ii . 164 , 191 . he accepted afterwards a draught of a thousand ...
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