Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... reader's expectation that , when at the usual time he claimed the Bachelorship of Arts , he was found by the examiners too conspicuously deficient for regular admission , and obtained his degree at last by special favour3 , a term used ...
... reader's expectation that , when at the usual time he claimed the Bachelorship of Arts , he was found by the examiners too conspicuously deficient for regular admission , and obtained his degree at last by special favour3 , a term used ...
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... readers ? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer . For had an hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion , they would have immediately sunk into silence and oblivion ...
... readers ? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer . For had an hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion , they would have immediately sunk into silence and oblivion ...
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... reader's notice 2 . In the year following he wrote A Project for the Advancement 34 of Religion3 , addressed to Lady Berkeley , by whose kindness it is not unlikely that he was advanced to his benefices . To this project , which is ...
... reader's notice 2 . In the year following he wrote A Project for the Advancement 34 of Religion3 , addressed to Lady Berkeley , by whose kindness it is not unlikely that he was advanced to his benefices . To this project , which is ...
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... readers * . To its propagation certainly no agency of power or influence was wanting . It furnished arguments for conversation , speeches for debate , and materials for parliamentary resolutions 5 . 47 Yet , surely , whoever surveys ...
... readers * . To its propagation certainly no agency of power or influence was wanting . It furnished arguments for conversation , speeches for debate , and materials for parliamentary resolutions 5 . 47 Yet , surely , whoever surveys ...
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... reader , finding frequent mention of names which he has been used to consider as important , goes on in hope of information ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed he can hardly complain . It is easy to ...
... reader , finding frequent mention of names which he has been used to consider as important , goes on in hope of information ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed he can hardly complain . It is easy to ...
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