The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... 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 preferment in exchange for the prebend , which he defired him to refign ...
... 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 preferment in exchange for the prebend , which he defired him to refign ...
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... hundred fuch pens as these been employed on the fide of religion , they " would have immediately funk into filence and " oblivion . " The reasonableness of a Teft is not hard to be proved ; but perhaps it must be allowed that the proper ...
... hundred fuch pens as these been employed on the fide of religion , they " would have immediately funk into filence and " oblivion . " The reasonableness of a Teft is not hard to be proved ; but perhaps it must be allowed that the proper ...
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... hundred difcontented , and one ungrateful . " 66 Much has been faid of the equality and indepen- dence which he preferved in his converfation with the Minifters , of the franknefs of his remonftrances , and the familiarity of his ...
... hundred difcontented , and one ungrateful . " 66 Much has been faid of the equality and indepen- dence which he preferved in his converfation with the Minifters , of the franknefs of his remonftrances , and the familiarity of his ...
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... hundred pounds were offered for the discovery of the author . From this ftorm he was , as he relates , " fecured by a fleight ; " of what kind , or by whose prudence , is not known ; and fuch was the increase of his reputation , that ...
... hundred pounds were offered for the discovery of the author . From this ftorm he was , as he relates , " fecured by a fleight ; " of what kind , or by whose prudence , is not known ; and fuch was the increase of his reputation , that ...
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... hundred and eighty thousand pounds of halfpence and farthings for the kingdom of Ireland , in which there was a very incon- venient and embarraffing fcarcity of copper coin ; fo that it was poffible to run in debt upon the credit of a ...
... hundred and eighty thousand pounds of halfpence and farthings for the kingdom of Ireland , in which there was a very incon- venient and embarraffing fcarcity of copper coin ; fo that it was poffible to run in debt upon the credit of a ...
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