The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... where he purchased clean fheets for fixpence . This practice Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of groffhefs and vulgarity : fome may afcribe it to his defire of furveying human life through all its varieties his 4 SWIFT .
... where he purchased clean fheets for fixpence . This practice Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of groffhefs and vulgarity : fome may afcribe it to his defire of furveying human life through all its varieties his 4 SWIFT .
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... Lord Capel , he obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift fo neceffary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English ...
... Lord Capel , he obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift fo neceffary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English ...
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... Lord Berkeley had the difpofal of the deanery of Derry , and Swift ex- pected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence , fuppofed to have been fecured by a bribe , it was bestowed on fomebody else ; and Swift was difmiffed * The ...
... Lord Berkeley had the difpofal of the deanery of Derry , and Swift ex- pected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence , fuppofed to have been fecured by a bribe , it was bestowed on fomebody else ; and Swift was difmiffed * The ...
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... Lord Cowper , who refused the feal . " Whatever is received , " fays the fchools , " is " received in proportion to the recipient . " The power of a political treatife depends much upon the difpofition of the people ; the nation was ...
... Lord Cowper , who refused the feal . " Whatever is received , " fays the fchools , " is " received in proportion to the recipient . " The power of a political treatife depends much upon the difpofition of the people ; the nation was ...
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... Lord Ox- ford ; but he accepted afterwards a draught of a thoufand upon the Exchequer , which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which he refigned , as he fays himself , " multa gemens , with many a groan . " In the midst of his ...
... Lord Ox- ford ; but he accepted afterwards a draught of a thoufand upon the Exchequer , which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which he refigned , as he fays himself , " multa gemens , with many a groan . " In the midst of his ...
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