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Page 418
... Swift's relations , and whose father , Sir John Temple , Master of the Rolls in Ireland , had lived in great familiarity of friendship with Godwin Swift , by whom Jonathan had been to that time maintained . Temple received with ...
... Swift's relations , and whose father , Sir John Temple , Master of the Rolls in Ireland , had lived in great familiarity of friendship with Godwin Swift , by whom Jonathan had been to that time maintained . Temple received with ...
Page 420
... Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English preferment in exchange for the prebend , which he desired him to resign . With this request Swift complied , having perhaps equally repented their ...
... Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English preferment in exchange for the prebend , which he desired him to resign . With this request Swift complied , having perhaps equally repented their ...
Page 436
... Swift never mentioned her without a sigh . The rest of his life [ 1728-45 ] was spent in Ireland - in a country to which not even power almost despotic , nor flattery almost idolatrous , could reconcile him . He sometimes wished to ...
... Swift never mentioned her without a sigh . The rest of his life [ 1728-45 ] was spent in Ireland - in a country to which not even power almost despotic , nor flattery almost idolatrous , could reconcile him . He sometimes wished to ...
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