Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... kind of fashion to walk , and many of them have got swinging strong shoes on purpose ; it has got as far as several young lords . ' Works , ii . 395. In 1728 the Wesleys , who began to perform their journeys on foot , ' thought it a ...
... kind of fashion to walk , and many of them have got swinging strong shoes on purpose ; it has got as far as several young lords . ' Works , ii . 395. In 1728 the Wesleys , who began to perform their journeys on foot , ' thought it a ...
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... kind a few single incidents are set against the general tenour of behaviour . No man , however , can pay a more servile tribute to the Great , than by suffering his liberty in their presence to aggrandize him in his own esteem . Between ...
... kind a few single incidents are set against the general tenour of behaviour . No man , however , can pay a more servile tribute to the Great , than by suffering his liberty in their presence to aggrandize him in his own esteem . Between ...
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... kind , or by whose prudence , is not known ; and such was the increase of his reputa- tion that ' the Scottish Nation applied again that he would be their friend " . ' He was become so formidable to the Whigs , that his familiarity 60 ...
... kind , or by whose prudence , is not known ; and such was the increase of his reputa- tion that ' the Scottish Nation applied again that he would be their friend " . ' He was become so formidable to the Whigs , that his familiarity 60 ...
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... 5 I am well assured by persons who knew it well , that the reception he met with from all sorts of men was as kind and honourable as he could wish . ' Delany , p . 87 . the populace , he is to be understood of the 26 SWIFT.
... 5 I am well assured by persons who knew it well , that the reception he met with from all sorts of men was as kind and honourable as he could wish . ' Delany , p . 87 . the populace , he is to be understood of the 26 SWIFT.
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... kind . ' Delany , p . 180 . See also ib . p . 145 ; ante , SWIFT , 67 n . 2 . For Pope's frugality see post , POPE , 267. In 1734 Swift described himself as drinking ' a pint of wine at noon , and another at night . ' Works , xviii ...
... kind . ' Delany , p . 180 . See also ib . p . 145 ; ante , SWIFT , 67 n . 2 . For Pope's frugality see post , POPE , 267. In 1734 Swift described himself as drinking ' a pint of wine at noon , and another at night . ' Works , xviii ...
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