“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... YALDEN TICKELL HAMMOND SOMERVILE SAVAGE SWIFT BROOME POPE · PITT THOMSON WATTS CONTENTS O F VOLUME II . PAGE I 20 31 46 52 61 68 72 222 76 79 81 162 193 196 303 • 305 816 A. PHILIPS • WEST . COLLINS DYER . SHENSTONE YOUNG.
... YALDEN TICKELL HAMMOND SOMERVILE SAVAGE SWIFT BROOME POPE · PITT THOMSON WATTS CONTENTS O F VOLUME II . PAGE I 20 31 46 52 61 68 72 222 76 79 81 162 193 196 303 • 305 816 A. PHILIPS • WEST . COLLINS DYER . SHENSTONE YOUNG.
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... Swift's " Proposal for ascertaining the English Language , " then lately pub- lished . In the parliament that met in 1701 he was chosen repre- sentative of East Grinstead . Perhaps it was about this time that he changed his party ; for ...
... Swift's " Proposal for ascertaining the English Language , " then lately pub- lished . In the parliament that met in 1701 he was chosen repre- sentative of East Grinstead . Perhaps it was about this time that he changed his party ; for ...
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... Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verses to Godolphin upon the loss of his place , was written by Prior , and answered by Addison , who appears to have known the Author either by conjecture or intelligence . The tories , who were ...
... Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verses to Godolphin upon the loss of his place , was written by Prior , and answered by Addison , who appears to have known the Author either by conjecture or intelligence . The tories , who were ...
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... Swift , " I have , " says he , " treated Lady Harriot at Cambridge ( a fellow of a college treat ! ) and spoke verses to her in a gown and cap ! What , the pleni- potentiary , so far concerned in the damned peace at Utrecht the man that ...
... Swift , " I have , " says he , " treated Lady Harriot at Cambridge ( a fellow of a college treat ! ) and spoke verses to her in a gown and cap ! What , the pleni- potentiary , so far concerned in the damned peace at Utrecht the man that ...
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... Swift , would go and smoke a pipe , and drink a bottle of ale , with a common soldier and his wife , in Long Acre , before he went to bed ; not from any remains of the lowness of his original , as one said , but , I suppose , that his ...
... Swift , would go and smoke a pipe , and drink a bottle of ale , with a common soldier and his wife , in Long Acre , before he went to bed ; not from any remains of the lowness of his original , as one said , but , I suppose , that his ...
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