Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... Swift Lives of Timoleon , Paulus Æmiliu , & c ... Wisdom of the Ancients Earlier Poems .. Confessio is of an Inquiring Spirit Francis Bacon Lives of Prior , Congreve , & c . * GILBERT WHITE . PLUTARCH , COVENTRY PATMORE GOETHE . SAMUEL ...
... Swift Lives of Timoleon , Paulus Æmiliu , & c ... Wisdom of the Ancients Earlier Poems .. Confessio is of an Inquiring Spirit Francis Bacon Lives of Prior , Congreve , & c . * GILBERT WHITE . PLUTARCH , COVENTRY PATMORE GOETHE . SAMUEL ...
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... . Tickell might have been impressed with his expectation by Swift's " Proposal for Ascertaining the English Language , " then lately published . In the Parliament that met in 1701 he was chosen 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... . Tickell might have been impressed with his expectation by Swift's " Proposal for Ascertaining the English Language , " then lately published . In the Parliament that met in 1701 he was chosen 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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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 plenipotentiary , so far concerned in the damned peace at Utrecht ; the man ...
... 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 plenipotentiary , so far concerned in the damned peace at Utrecht ; the man ...
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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 faculties ...
... 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 faculties ...
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