Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... death 7 of Godwin Swift his uncle , who had supported him3 , left without subsistence , he went to consult his mother , who then lived at Leicester , about the future course of his life , and by her direction solicited the advice and ...
... death 7 of Godwin Swift his uncle , who had supported him3 , left without subsistence , he went to consult his mother , who then lived at Leicester , about the future course of his life , and by her direction solicited the advice and ...
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... death , it is probable that he 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 , 18 and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple ' , to the King , and to the Athenian Society ...
... death , it is probable that he 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 , 18 and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple ' , to the King , and to the Athenian Society ...
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... death , he became a settled resident . The Archbishop of Dublin gave him at first some disturbance 64 in the exercise of his jurisdiction ; but it was soon discovered , that between prudence and integrity he was seldom in the wrong ...
... death , he became a settled resident . The Archbishop of Dublin gave him at first some disturbance 64 in the exercise of his jurisdiction ; but it was soon discovered , that between prudence and integrity he was seldom in the wrong ...
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... death rushed upon him at this time with such incessant. 66 volve every one concerned in a certain ruin . ' Works , xix . 10 , 20 , 134. Eras- mus Lewis gave the same warning . 1b . p . 131. Orrery read it in MS . Re- marks , p . 308. In ...
... death rushed upon him at this time with such incessant. 66 volve every one concerned in a certain ruin . ' Works , xix . 10 , 20 , 134. Eras- mus Lewis gave the same warning . 1b . p . 131. Orrery read it in MS . Re- marks , p . 308. In ...
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... death ; and the reflections upon it now begin when I wake in the morning , and end when I am going to sleep . ' Works , xvii . 260. He was forty - seven four months after the Queen's death . He wrote to Pope in 1733 : - ' As to ...
... death ; and the reflections upon it now begin when I wake in the morning , and end when I am going to sleep . ' Works , xvii . 260. He was forty - seven four months after the Queen's death . He wrote to Pope in 1733 : - ' As to ...
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