Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... wrote a poem on the Kit - cat Club , and Advice to the Poets how to Celebrate the Duke of Marlborough ; but on occasion of another year of success , thinking himself qualified to give more instruc- tion , he again wrote a poem of Advice ...
... wrote a poem on the Kit - cat Club , and Advice to the Poets how to Celebrate the Duke of Marlborough ; but on occasion of another year of success , thinking himself qualified to give more instruc- tion , he again wrote a poem of Advice ...
Page 49
... wrote on as he had written before , and never turned aside to quiet them by civility , or repress them by confutation . He depended with great security on his own powers , and perhaps was for that reason less diligent in perusing books ...
... wrote on as he had written before , and never turned aside to quiet them by civility , or repress them by confutation . He depended with great security on his own powers , and perhaps was for that reason less diligent in perusing books ...
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... wrote the Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books . Swift began early to think , or to hope , that he was a poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published ...
... wrote the Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books . Swift began early to think , or to hope , that he was a poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published ...
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