The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... given reason for complaint , is faid to have made him Deputy Master of the Rolls in Ireland ; which , according to his kinfman's account , was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore refolved to enter into ...
... given reason for complaint , is faid to have made him Deputy Master of the Rolls in Ireland ; which , according to his kinfman's account , was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore refolved to enter into ...
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... given to one affords all the reft reafon for complaint . " When I give away a place , " faid Lewis XIV . " I make an hundred difcontented , and one ungrateful . " 66 Much has been faid of the equality and indepen- dence which he ...
... given to one affords all the reft reafon for complaint . " When I give away a place , " faid Lewis XIV . " I make an hundred difcontented , and one ungrateful . " 66 Much has been faid of the equality and indepen- dence which he ...
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... given away ; and the friends of power may , if there be no inherent difqualification , reafonably expect them . Swift accepted ( 1713 ) the deanery of St. Patrick , the best preferment that his friends could venture to give him . That ...
... given away ; and the friends of power may , if there be no inherent difqualification , reafonably expect them . Swift accepted ( 1713 ) the deanery of St. Patrick , the best preferment that his friends could venture to give him . That ...
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... given by Lord Orrery and Dr. Delany , are fo different , that the credit of the writers , both undoubtedly veracious , cannot be faved , but by fuppofing , what I think is true , that they speak of different times . When De- lany fays ...
... given by Lord Orrery and Dr. Delany , are fo different , that the credit of the writers , both undoubtedly veracious , cannot be faved , but by fuppofing , what I think is true , that they speak of different times . When De- lany fays ...
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... one of the Juftices , accused him of exafperating the people , * An account somewhat different from this is given by Mr Sheridan in his Life of Swift , p . 211. R. he $ 66 he exculpated himself by faying , " If I 26 SWIFT .
... one of the Juftices , accused him of exafperating the people , * An account somewhat different from this is given by Mr Sheridan in his Life of Swift , p . 211. R. he $ 66 he exculpated himself by faying , " If I 26 SWIFT .
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