The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... fuch reception and regard as ful- ly contented him . While he lived with Temple , he used to pay his mother at Leicester a yearly vifit . He travelled on foot , unless fome violence of weather drove him into a waggon ; and at night he ...
... fuch reception and regard as ful- ly contented him . While he lived with Temple , he used to pay his mother at Leicester a yearly vifit . He travelled on foot , unless fome violence of weather drove him into a waggon ; and at night he ...
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... fuch circumvention and inconftancy muft have excited violent indignation . But he had yet more to fuffer . Lord Berkeley had the difpofal of the deanery of Derry , and Swift ex- pected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence ...
... fuch circumvention and inconftancy muft have excited violent indignation . But he had yet more to fuffer . Lord Berkeley had the difpofal of the deanery of Derry , and Swift ex- pected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence ...
Pàgina 8
... fuch a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous proteftation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily difowned * . * See Sheridan's Life , edit . 1784 ...
... fuch a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous proteftation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily difowned * . * See Sheridan's Life , edit . 1784 ...
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... as in a state of exile . It seems that his firft recourfe was to piety . The thoughts of death rushed upon him , at this time , with fuch inceffant importu- nity , that they took poffeffion of his mind , nity , 20 SWIFT .
... as in a state of exile . It seems that his firft recourfe was to piety . The thoughts of death rushed upon him , at this time , with fuch inceffant importu- nity , that they took poffeffion of his mind , nity , 20 SWIFT .
Pàgina 26
... fuch power as , confidered both in its extent and duration , fcarcely any man has ever en- joyed without greater wealth or higher station . He was from this important year the oracle of the traders , and the idol of the rabble , and by ...
... fuch power as , confidered both in its extent and duration , fcarcely any man has ever en- joyed without greater wealth or higher station . He was from this important year the oracle of the traders , and the idol of the rabble , and by ...
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