Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... mention this disappointment as his first antidote against vanity 5 . Before he left Ireland he contracted a disorder , as he thought , by eating too much fruit . The original of diseases is commonly obscure . Almost every boy eats as ...
... mention this disappointment as his first antidote against vanity 5 . Before he left Ireland he contracted a disorder , as he thought , by eating too much fruit . The original of diseases is commonly obscure . Almost every boy eats as ...
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... mentioned as a man neglected and oppressed by the last ministry , because he had refused to co- operate with some of their schemes . What he had refused has never been told ; what he had suffered was ,. amazement . " form ' those of ...
... mentioned as a man neglected and oppressed by the last ministry , because he had refused to co- operate with some of their schemes . What he had refused has never been told ; what he had suffered was ,. amazement . " form ' those of ...
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... mentioned ; a strain of heroism , which would have been in his condition romantick and superfluous . Ecclesiastical benefices , when they become vacant , must be given away ; and the friends of Power may , if there be no inherent ...
... mentioned ; a strain of heroism , which would have been in his condition romantick and superfluous . Ecclesiastical benefices , when they become vacant , must be given away ; and the friends of Power may , if there be no inherent ...
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... . 359 , 360. For Steele see ante , ADDISON , 36 , 73 . 7 On May 13 , 1713 , Swift wrote to Addison : - ' Mr . Steele knows very well that my Lord - Treasurer has kept In this pamphlet the Scotch were mentioned in terms so 24 SWIFT.
... . 359 , 360. For Steele see ante , ADDISON , 36 , 73 . 7 On May 13 , 1713 , Swift wrote to Addison : - ' Mr . Steele knows very well that my Lord - Treasurer has kept In this pamphlet the Scotch were mentioned in terms so 24 SWIFT.
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. In this pamphlet the Scotch were mentioned in terms so pro- 59 voking to that irritable nation , that , resolving not to be offended with impunity , the Scotch Lords in a body demanded an ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. In this pamphlet the Scotch were mentioned in terms so pro- 59 voking to that irritable nation , that , resolving not to be offended with impunity , the Scotch Lords in a body demanded an ...
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