Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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Page 117
... appeared neither to consider himself as a murderer , nor as a man wholly free from the guilt of blood . How much and how long he regretted it , appeared in a poem which he published many years afterwards . On occasion of a copy of ...
... appeared neither to consider himself as a murderer , nor as a man wholly free from the guilt of blood . How much and how long he regretted it , appeared in a poem which he published many years afterwards . On occasion of a copy of ...
Page 154
... appeared in his conduct to the Lord Tyrconnel , from whom he very frequently demanded , that the allow- ance which was once paid him should be restored ; but with whom he never appeared to entertain for a moment the thought of ...
... appeared in his conduct to the Lord Tyrconnel , from whom he very frequently demanded , that the allow- ance which was once paid him should be restored ; but with whom he never appeared to entertain for a moment the thought of ...
Page 197
... appeared to retain in his last years . Swift contrived an interview from which they both departed discontented : he procured a second , which only convinced him that the feud was irreconcilable ; he told them his opinion , that all was ...
... appeared to retain in his last years . Swift contrived an interview from which they both departed discontented : he procured a second , which only convinced him that the feud was irreconcilable ; he told them his opinion , that all was ...
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