Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... give up his living to stay with him , and promised to get him one in England ; but death came in between , and has left him unprovided both of friend and living . ' Ib . p . 260 . 4 Swift , in 1700 , described Temple as a good master ...
... give up his living to stay with him , and promised to get him one in England ; but death came in between , and has left him unprovided both of friend and living . ' Ib . p . 260 . 4 Swift , in 1700 , described Temple as a good master ...
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... give away a place , ' said Lewis XIV . , ' I make an hundred discontented , and one ungrateful " . ' Much has been said of the equality and independence which 52 he preserved in his conversation with the Ministers , of the frank- ness ...
... give away a place , ' said Lewis XIV . , ' I make an hundred discontented , and one ungrateful " . ' Much has been said of the equality and independence which 52 he preserved in his conversation with the Ministers , of the frank- ness ...
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... give him . That Ministry was in a great degree supported by the Clergy , who were not yet reconciled to the author of The Tale of a Tub , and would not without much discontent and indignation have borne to see him installed in an ...
... give him . That Ministry was in a great degree supported by the Clergy , who were not yet reconciled to the author of The Tale of a Tub , and would not without much discontent and indignation have borne to see him installed in an ...
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... give a sum of money . ' Works , iii . 152. ' May 16. I shall be sadly cramped unless the Queen will give me £ 1,000 . ... Lord Treasurer rallies me upon it , and I believe intends it ; but quando ? ' Ib . p . 156. Scott says that ...
... give a sum of money . ' Works , iii . 152. ' May 16. I shall be sadly cramped unless the Queen will give me £ 1,000 . ... Lord Treasurer rallies me upon it , and I believe intends it ; but quando ? ' Ib . p . 156. Scott says that ...
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... give one another such names as nobody but ministers of state could bear without cutting throats . ' lb. xvi . 156 . 5. Ib . iv . 215 . 6 On March 18 , 1713-14 . Parl . Hist . vi . 1268. A few days earlier the House of Lords had ...
... give one another such names as nobody but ministers of state could bear without cutting throats . ' lb. xvi . 156 . 5. Ib . iv . 215 . 6 On March 18 , 1713-14 . Parl . Hist . vi . 1268. A few days earlier the House of Lords had ...
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