Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... thing after it .... Nobody , ' he added , ยท should make love after forty , nor be in business after fifty . ' Temple's Works , Pref . p . 27 . Deane Swift , p . 108. See Swift's Works , i . 25 n . , for Swift's making his bookseller eat ...
... thing after it .... Nobody , ' he added , ยท should make love after forty , nor be in business after fifty . ' Temple's Works , Pref . p . 27 . Deane Swift , p . 108. See Swift's Works , i . 25 n . , for Swift's making his bookseller eat ...
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... things now stand , be attended with some Inconveniences , and per- haps not produce those many good Effects proposed thereby , Works , viii . 61 ; Craik , p . 162 . Works , viii . 339 ; Craik , p . 167 . Swift wrote of it to Archbishop ...
... things now stand , be attended with some Inconveniences , and per- haps not produce those many good Effects proposed thereby , Works , viii . 61 ; Craik , p . 162 . Works , viii . 339 ; Craik , p . 167 . Swift wrote of it to Archbishop ...
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... thing contributed by him to his paper . But he was now im- fused to go certain lengths they would have me . This happened to be in some sort Mr. Harley's own case . ' Works , xv . 364. See also ib . ii . 29 . For his gross flattery of ...
... thing contributed by him to his paper . But he was now im- fused to go certain lengths they would have me . This happened to be in some sort Mr. Harley's own case . ' Works , xv . 364. See also ib . ii . 29 . For his gross flattery of ...
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... things ( after he had a name to put ) , The Plan for the Improvement of the English Lan- guage [ ante , SWIFT , 40 ] , and the last Drapier's Letter : Boswell's John- son , ii . 319. It was to No. 6 that he put his name - or rather ...
... things ( after he had a name to put ) , The Plan for the Improvement of the English Lan- guage [ ante , SWIFT , 40 ] , and the last Drapier's Letter : Boswell's John- son , ii . 319. It was to No. 6 that he put his name - or rather ...
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... and not in the Deanery : which besides , you know , cannot but be a very im- proper thing for that house to breathe her last in . ' Ib . p . 40 . 84 presence contributed to restore her to imperfect and tottering SWIFT 37.
... and not in the Deanery : which besides , you know , cannot but be a very im- proper thing for that house to breathe her last in . ' Ib . p . 40 . 84 presence contributed to restore her to imperfect and tottering SWIFT 37.
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