Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... wrote to Bolingbroke of fame : ' With age we learn to know the house is so full that there is no room for above one ... wrote Temple , ' by the desertion of the Col- lege of Dublin upon the calamities of the country . ' Cunningham's ...
... wrote to Bolingbroke of fame : ' With age we learn to know the house is so full that there is no room for above one ... wrote Temple , ' by the desertion of the Col- lege of Dublin upon the calamities of the country . ' Cunningham's ...
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... wrote to Bolingbroke of fame : ' With age we learn to know the house is so full that there is no room for above one ... wrote Temple , ' by the desertion of the Col- lege of Dublin upon the calamities of the country . Cunningham's Lives ...
... wrote to Bolingbroke of fame : ' With age we learn to know the house is so full that there is no room for above one ... wrote Temple , ' by the desertion of the Col- lege of Dublin upon the calamities of the country . Cunningham's Lives ...
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... wrote to Pope , who was forty - five : - ' At your time of life I could have leaped over the moon . ' Works , xviii . 124. At Letcombe , where he resided in 1714 ( post , SWIFT , 61 ) , ' there is a hill , ' wrote Bowles in 1806 ...
... wrote to Pope , who was forty - five : - ' At your time of life I could have leaped over the moon . ' Works , xviii . 124. At Letcombe , where he resided in 1714 ( post , SWIFT , 61 ) , ' there is a hill , ' wrote Bowles in 1806 ...
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... wrote to his uncle , William Swift : - ' I 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 ...
... wrote to his uncle , William Swift : - ' I 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 ...
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... wrote The Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books " . Swift began early to think , or to 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 ...
... wrote The Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books " . Swift began early to think , or to 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 ...
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