Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page 55
... kind of muddy complexion , which , though he washed himself with oriental scrupulosity , did not look clear * . He had a countenance sour and severe 5 , which he seldom softened by Day , 1710 , he wrote : - ' I was at church to - day by ...
... kind of muddy complexion , which , though he washed himself with oriental scrupulosity , did not look clear * . He had a countenance sour and severe 5 , which he seldom softened by Day , 1710 , he wrote : - ' I was at church to - day by ...
Page 58
... kind of defiance which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule ; he therefore who indulges peculiar habits is worse than others , if he be not better 2 . Of his humour a story told by Pope3 may afford a specimen : ' Dr. Swift has an ...
... kind of defiance which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule ; he therefore who indulges peculiar habits is worse than others , if he be not better 2 . Of his humour a story told by Pope3 may afford a specimen : ' Dr. Swift has an ...
Page 64
... kind in this world . When you consider his ironical and humorous , as well as his serious schemes , for the promotion of true religion and virtue ; his success in soliciting for the First Fruits and Twentieths , to the unspeakable ...
... kind in this world . When you consider his ironical and humorous , as well as his serious schemes , for the promotion of true religion and virtue ; his success in soliciting for the First Fruits and Twentieths , to the unspeakable ...
Page 84
... kind of play from Ogylby's Iliad , with some verses of his own intermixed , which he persuaded his schoolfellows to act , with the addition of his master's gardener , who personated Ajax 6 . The title - page to Acis and Gala- tea ...
... kind of play from Ogylby's Iliad , with some verses of his own intermixed , which he persuaded his schoolfellows to act , with the addition of his master's gardener , who personated Ajax 6 . The title - page to Acis and Gala- tea ...
Page 105
... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid3 . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid3 . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
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