Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... says himself , multa gemens ' ( with many a groan 2 ) . In the midst of his power and his politicks , he kept a journal 55 of his visits , his walks , his interviews with Ministers , and quarrels with his servant , and transmitted it to ...
... says himself , multa gemens ' ( with many a groan 2 ) . In the midst of his power and his politicks , he kept a journal 55 of his visits , his walks , his interviews with Ministers , and quarrels with his servant , and transmitted it to ...
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... says ' this History had perished , had not a straggling transcript fallen into busy hands . ' Chesterfield describes it as ' a party pamphlet founded on the lie of the day , which , as Lord Bolingbroke , who had read it , often assured ...
... says ' this History had perished , had not a straggling transcript fallen into busy hands . ' Chesterfield describes it as ' a party pamphlet founded on the lie of the day , which , as Lord Bolingbroke , who had read it , often assured ...
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... says : — ' There would be a better table and public days to be kept . ' See also Birch's Life of Tillotson , 1752 , P. 283 , for the Archbishop's account of the temperance and self - denial he can exercise at his public table . 3 Deane ...
... says : — ' There would be a better table and public days to be kept . ' See also Birch's Life of Tillotson , 1752 , P. 283 , for the Archbishop's account of the temperance and self - denial he can exercise at his public table . 3 Deane ...
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... says : - ' Go over the scenes of Windsor . ' Ib . xix . 369. He was a good deal in that town in the late summer of 1712. Ib . iii . 41 , 43 , 45 , 50. His letters to Stella had been interrupted by illness through April of that year ...
... says : - ' Go over the scenes of Windsor . ' Ib . xix . 369. He was a good deal in that town in the late summer of 1712. Ib . iii . 41 , 43 , 45 , 50. His letters to Stella had been interrupted by illness through April of that year ...
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... says that the offer was made some years before her death . ' It was then , she said , " too late " ; and therefore better that they should live on , as they had hitherto done . ' Craik , p . 530 . Scott also reports this anecdote which ...
... says that the offer was made some years before her death . ' It was then , she said , " too late " ; and therefore better that they should live on , as they had hitherto done . ' Craik , p . 530 . Scott also reports this anecdote which ...
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