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Pàgina xv
... character , 350 . JONATHAN SWIFT , 1667—1745 N • P. 353 Educated at Kilkenny , and Trin . Col. Dub . , 353 - Taken into the family of Sir William Temple , 353 - King William shows him how to cut Aspara_ gus in the Dutch way , and offers ...
... character , 350 . JONATHAN SWIFT , 1667—1745 N • P. 353 Educated at Kilkenny , and Trin . Col. Dub . , 353 - Taken into the family of Sir William Temple , 353 - King William shows him how to cut Aspara_ gus in the Dutch way , and offers ...
Pàgina xvii
... character as a Poet , 452 . AMBROSE PHILIPS , 1675-1749 • 452 Educated at St. John's , Cambridge , 452 - His Distressed Mother , 453- His Pastorals , 453 - Secretary to Lord Chancellor of Ireland , 455 - Dies June 18 , 1749 , 456 ...
... character as a Poet , 452 . AMBROSE PHILIPS , 1675-1749 • 452 Educated at St. John's , Cambridge , 452 - His Distressed Mother , 453- His Pastorals , 453 - Secretary to Lord Chancellor of Ireland , 455 - Dies June 18 , 1749 , 456 ...
Pàgina xviii
... character as a Poet , 495 . THOMAS GRAY , 1716—1771 P. 496 Born in Cornhill , 496 - Educated at Eton and Oxford , 496 - Travels with Horace Walpole , 496 - Returns to England and Retires to Cam- 3 - bridge , 496 - His Odes , 497 - The ...
... character as a Poet , 495 . THOMAS GRAY , 1716—1771 P. 496 Born in Cornhill , 496 - Educated at Eton and Oxford , 496 - Travels with Horace Walpole , 496 - Returns to England and Retires to Cam- 3 - bridge , 496 - His Odes , 497 - The ...
Pàgina xx
... character and respectability . While his friend Savage was wasting considerable powers in temporary gratification , John- son was advancing slowly but surely into a higher class of society . The powers of his pen were supported by those ...
... character and respectability . While his friend Savage was wasting considerable powers in temporary gratification , John- son was advancing slowly but surely into a higher class of society . The powers of his pen were supported by those ...
Pàgina xxii
... character being exposed in all its shadows , as well as its lights . But those , when summed and counted , amount only to a few narrow - minded prejudices concerning country and party , from which few ardent tempers remain entirely free ...
... character being exposed in all its shadows , as well as its lights . But those , when summed and counted , amount only to a few narrow - minded prejudices concerning country and party , from which few ardent tempers remain entirely free ...
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