The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through all its varieties ; and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a passion SWIFT 3.
... Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through all its varieties ; and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a passion SWIFT 3.
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... Lord Capel , he obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English ...
... Lord Capel , he obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English ...
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... Lord Berkeley had the dis- posal of the deanery of Derry , and Swift expected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence , supposed to have been secured by a bribe , it was bestowed on somebody else , and Swift was dismissed with ...
... Lord Berkeley had the dis- posal of the deanery of Derry , and Swift expected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence , supposed to have been secured by a bribe , it was bestowed on somebody else , and Swift was dismissed with ...
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... Lord Cowper , who refused the seal . ' Whatever is received , ' say the schools , ' is received in proportion to the recipient . The power of a political treatise depends much upon the disposition of the people ; the nation was 10 LIVES ...
... Lord Cowper , who refused the seal . ' Whatever is received , ' say the schools , ' is received in proportion to the recipient . The power of a political treatise depends much upon the disposition of the people ; the nation was 10 LIVES ...
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... him installed in an English cathedral . He refused , indeed , fifty pounds from Lord Oxford ; but he accepted afterwards a draft of a thousand upon the Exchequer , which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which 12 LIVES OF THE ...
... him installed in an English cathedral . He refused , indeed , fifty pounds from Lord Oxford ; but he accepted afterwards a draft of a thousand upon the Exchequer , which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which 12 LIVES OF THE ...
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