Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... perhaps with equal probability , to a passion which seems to have been deep fixed in his heart , the love of a shilling 5 . In time he began to think that his attendance at Moor - park deserved some other recompence than the pleasure ...
... perhaps with equal probability , to a passion which seems to have been deep fixed in his heart , the love of a shilling 5 . In time he began to think that his attendance at Moor - park deserved some other recompence than the pleasure ...
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... perhaps equally repented their separation , and they lived on together with mutual satisfaction * ; and , in the four years that passed between his return and Temple's death , it is probable that he wrote The Tale of a Tub and The ...
... perhaps equally repented their separation , and they lived on together with mutual satisfaction * ; and , in the four years that passed between his return and Temple's death , it is probable that he wrote The Tale of a Tub and The ...
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... perhaps the only , topick we have left . Who would ever have suspected Asgills for a wit , or Toland for a philosopher , if the inexhaustible stock of Chris- tianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials ? What other ...
... perhaps the only , topick we have left . Who would ever have suspected Asgills for a wit , or Toland for a philosopher , if the inexhaustible stock of Chris- tianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials ? What other ...
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... perhaps it must be allowed that the proper test has not been chosen ' . The attention paid to the papers published under the name of 33 Bickerstaff induced Steele , when he projected The Tatler , to assume an appellation which had ...
... perhaps it must be allowed that the proper test has not been chosen ' . The attention paid to the papers published under the name of 33 Bickerstaff induced Steele , when he projected The Tatler , to assume an appellation which had ...
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... perhaps not quick by nature , became yet more slow by irresolution , and was content to hear that to ' On Feb. 18 , 1710-11 , Swift wrote : -'We are plagued here with an October Club ; that is , a set of above a hundred parliamentmen of ...
... perhaps not quick by nature , became yet more slow by irresolution , and was content to hear that to ' On Feb. 18 , 1710-11 , Swift wrote : -'We are plagued here with an October Club ; that is , a set of above a hundred parliamentmen of ...
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