The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 5
... . " Swift began early to think , or to hope , that he was a poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obfcure B 3 obfcure men * , who published a periodical pamphlet of SWIFT . 5.
... . " Swift began early to think , or to hope , that he was a poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obfcure B 3 obfcure men * , who published a periodical pamphlet of SWIFT . 5.
Pàgina 17
... the Dean , may be reasonably doubted : they have , however , fome odd attraction ; the reader , finding frequent mention of names which he has been used VOL . III . C to to confider as important , goes on in hope of SWIFT . 17.
... the Dean , may be reasonably doubted : they have , however , fome odd attraction ; the reader , finding frequent mention of names which he has been used VOL . III . C to to confider as important , goes on in hope of SWIFT . 17.
Pàgina 18
... hope of infor- mation ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed he can hardly complain . It is easily to perceive , from every page , that though am- bition preffed Swift into a life of bustle , the wish ...
... hope of infor- mation ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed he can hardly complain . It is easily to perceive , from every page , that though am- bition preffed Swift into a life of bustle , the wish ...
Pàgina 27
... hope- lefs . Swift was then in England , and had been invited by Lord Bolingbroke to pafs the winter with him in France ; but this call of calamity haftened him to Ireland , where perhaps his prefence con- tributed to restore her to ...
... hope- lefs . Swift was then in England , and had been invited by Lord Bolingbroke to pafs the winter with him in France ; but this call of calamity haftened him to Ireland , where perhaps his prefence con- tributed to restore her to ...
Pàgina 30
... hope that in time he would own and receive her ; but the time did not come till the change of his man- ners and deprivation of his mind made her tell him , when he offered to acknowledge her , that " it was " too late . " She then gave ...
... hope that in time he would own and receive her ; but the time did not come till the change of his man- ners and deprivation of his mind made her tell him , when he offered to acknowledge her , that " it was " too late . " She then gave ...
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