Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... favour , and have every day numbers of considerable men teazing me to solicit for them . ' March 8 , 1711-12 . I can serve everybody but myself . ' Sept. 18 , 1712. Pray God that I may live free from the discontent and envy that attends ...
... favour , and have every day numbers of considerable men teazing me to solicit for them . ' March 8 , 1711-12 . I can serve everybody but myself . ' Sept. 18 , 1712. Pray God that I may live free from the discontent and envy that attends ...
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... favour and mercy of the ministers than any other people . Steele I have kept in his place . Con- greve I have got to be used kindly and secured [ ante , CONGREVE , 28 ] . Rowe I have recommended , and got a promise of a place [ ante ...
... favour and mercy of the ministers than any other people . Steele I have kept in his place . Con- greve I have got to be used kindly and secured [ ante , CONGREVE , 28 ] . Rowe I have recommended , and got a promise of a place [ ante ...
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... favour once again he shines ; Is now divines . caress'd by candidate The Scottish nation , whom he durst offend , Again apply that Swift would be their friend . ' Ib . xii . 304 . ' Finch , famed for tedious elocution , proves That ...
... favour once again he shines ; Is now divines . caress'd by candidate The Scottish nation , whom he durst offend , Again apply that Swift would be their friend . ' Ib . xii . 304 . ' Finch , famed for tedious elocution , proves That ...
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... favour of Swift , ' one in 1718 , the other in 1721 , in which she is styled ' spinster . ' It is not perhaps of great importance that Swift wrote in 1730 : - ' Those who have been married may form juster ideas of that estate than I can ...
... favour of Swift , ' one in 1718 , the other in 1721 , in which she is styled ' spinster . ' It is not perhaps of great importance that Swift wrote in 1730 : - ' Those who have been married may form juster ideas of that estate than I can ...
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... favours . ' Ib . p . 141. On Nov. 10 , 1730 , he wrote to Gay : - ' I made a present [ to the Queen ] , or rather it was begged from me , of about £ 35 . The trifle promised me , worth about £ 15 , was never remembered . ' Pope's Works ...
... favours . ' Ib . p . 141. On Nov. 10 , 1730 , he wrote to Gay : - ' I made a present [ to the Queen ] , or rather it was begged from me , of about £ 35 . The trifle promised me , worth about £ 15 , was never remembered . ' Pope's Works ...
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