The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... himself an Englishman . The queftion may , without much regret , be left in the obfcurity in which he delighted to involve it . Whatever was his birth , his education was Irish . He was fent at the age of fix to the school at Kilkenny ...
... himself an Englishman . The queftion may , without much regret , be left in the obfcurity in which he delighted to involve it . Whatever was his birth , his education was Irish . He was fent at the age of fix to the school at Kilkenny ...
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... himself . In a man like Swift , 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 ...
... himself . In a man like Swift , 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 ...
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... himself , nor very well proved by any evidence ; but no other claimant can be produced , and he did not deny it when Archbishop Sharpe and the Duchefs of Somerset , by fhewing it to the Queen , debarred him from a bishoprick . When this ...
... himself , nor very well proved by any evidence ; but no other claimant can be produced , and he did not deny it when Archbishop Sharpe and the Duchefs of Somerset , by fhewing it to the Queen , debarred him from a bishoprick . When this ...
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... himself as having fortune in his power . Commiffions , folicitations , remonftrances , crowded about him ; he was expected to do every man's bufinefs , to procure employment for one , and to retain it for another . In affifting thofe ...
... himself as having fortune in his power . Commiffions , folicitations , remonftrances , crowded about him ; he was expected to do every man's bufinefs , to procure employment for one , and to retain it for another . In affifting thofe ...
Pàgina 16
... himself neceffary may fet , while that neceffity lafts , a high value upon himself ; as , in a lower con- dition , a fervant eminently fkilful may be faucy ; but he is faucy only because he is fervile . Swift appears to have preferved ...
... himself neceffary may fet , while that neceffity lafts , a high value upon himself ; as , in a lower con- dition , a fervant eminently fkilful may be faucy ; but he is faucy only because he is fervile . Swift appears to have preferved ...
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