Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Spence , he was born at Leicester , the son of a clergyman , who was minister of a parish in Herefordshire . During ... Spence's Anec . p . 161. Probably Pope's memory was at fault ; though Swift's cousin writes : - ' Sometimes he would ...
... Spence , he was born at Leicester , the son of a clergyman , who was minister of a parish in Herefordshire . During ... Spence's Anec . p . 161. Probably Pope's memory was at fault ; though Swift's cousin writes : - ' Sometimes he would ...
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... Spence's Anec . ed . Ma- lone , p . 135. Jervas's portrait of Swift in his prime ( now in the Bod- leian ) , painted in 1708 but retouched two years later , hardly bears out Johnson's description . ] 123 any appearance of gaiety ' . He ...
... Spence's Anec . ed . Ma- lone , p . 135. Jervas's portrait of Swift in his prime ( now in the Bod- leian ) , painted in 1708 but retouched two years later , hardly bears out Johnson's description . ] 123 any appearance of gaiety ' . He ...
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... Spence's Anec . p . 19. On Pope's line in Moral Essays , i . 62 : — ' While one there is who charms us with his spleen , ' Warton writes in a note : - ' It is a compliment to Swift . ' Swift's recog- nition of Pope's genius is shown in ...
... Spence's Anec . p . 19. On Pope's line in Moral Essays , i . 62 : — ' While one there is who charms us with his spleen , ' Warton writes in a note : - ' It is a compliment to Swift . ' Swift's recog- nition of Pope's genius is shown in ...
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... Spence's Anec . p . 256. See ante , SWIFT , IOI . 2 as- Johnson at first wrote : - sumes a style of superiority . ' Bos- well's Johnson , iv . 63 . ' Swift had a mixture of insolence in his conversation . ' YOUNG , Spence's Anec . p ...
... Spence's Anec . p . 256. See ante , SWIFT , IOI . 2 as- Johnson at first wrote : - sumes a style of superiority . ' Bos- well's Johnson , iv . 63 . ' Swift had a mixture of insolence in his conversation . ' YOUNG , Spence's Anec . p ...
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... Spence's Anec . p . 270. For an anecdote of Pope , ' when on a visit to Spence at Oxford , ' see Boswell's Johnson , iv . 9. See also Johnson Letters , ii . 156 , on the shares in the Odyssey . Broome and Fenton had £ 770 for half the ...
... Spence's Anec . p . 270. For an anecdote of Pope , ' when on a visit to Spence at Oxford , ' see Boswell's Johnson , iv . 9. See also Johnson Letters , ii . 156 , on the shares in the Odyssey . Broome and Fenton had £ 770 for half the ...
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