Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Hist . i . 256 . 4 Burton wrote more than twenty years after Smith's death : - ' He was , and is still , commonly known by the name of Captain Rag . ' Genuineness , & c . , p . 40 . Lord Castledurrow wrote to Swift in 1736 : - ' It ...
... Hist . i . 256 . 4 Burton wrote more than twenty years after Smith's death : - ' He was , and is still , commonly known by the name of Captain Rag . ' Genuineness , & c . , p . 40 . Lord Castledurrow wrote to Swift in 1736 : - ' It ...
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... Hist . of Eng . 1735 , Pref . p . 4. ] • · In 1704 Atterbury wrote : - ' The Tale of a Tub comes from Christ Church . The authors are now supposed generally at Oxford to be one Smith and one Philips , the first a Student , the second a ...
... Hist . of Eng . 1735 , Pref . p . 4. ] • · In 1704 Atterbury wrote : - ' The Tale of a Tub comes from Christ Church . The authors are now supposed generally at Oxford to be one Smith and one Philips , the first a Student , the second a ...
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... ( Hist . of Eng . 1730 , p . 227 ) Smith , on his death - bed , confessed the forgery , with great remorse , ' to the gentleman in whose house he died . ' He mentioned , in particular , as his insertion , the passage where Hampden is ...
... ( Hist . of Eng . 1730 , p . 227 ) Smith , on his death - bed , confessed the forgery , with great remorse , ' to the gentleman in whose house he died . ' He mentioned , in particular , as his insertion , the passage where Hampden is ...
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... Hist . MSS . Comm . 1901 . For Gastrell's character see also Hearne's Remains , ii . 239. ] [ George Duckett of Hartham ( not Gartham , as Johnson gives it ) was an intimate friend and regular correspondent of Gilbert Walmesley , to ...
... Hist . MSS . Comm . 1901 . For Gastrell's character see also Hearne's Remains , ii . 239. ] [ George Duckett of Hartham ( not Gartham , as Johnson gives it ) was an intimate friend and regular correspondent of Gilbert Walmesley , to ...
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... Hist . of Eng . ii . 174-82 . See also ante , DRYDEN , 109 ; post , SPRAT , 17 ; Halifax , 9 ; ADDISON , YALDEN , 3 ; SWIFT , 27 . 14 ,; It was a weekly paper , published ' to defend the measures ' of the Tory ministry . Among its early ...
... Hist . of Eng . ii . 174-82 . See also ante , DRYDEN , 109 ; post , SPRAT , 17 ; Halifax , 9 ; ADDISON , YALDEN , 3 ; SWIFT , 27 . 14 ,; It was a weekly paper , published ' to defend the measures ' of the Tory ministry . Among its early ...
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