The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... gives reason for expecting . He wrote likewise this year a Vindication of Bickerstaff , and an explanation of an Ancient Prophecy , part written after the facts , and the rest never completed , but well planned to excite amazement ...
... gives reason for expecting . He wrote likewise this year a Vindication of Bickerstaff , and an explanation of an Ancient Prophecy , part written after the facts , and the rest never completed , but well planned to excite amazement ...
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... give away a place , said Louis XIV . , I make a hundred discontented and one ungrateful . Much has been said of the equality and independence which he preserved in his conversation with the Ministers , of the frankness of his ...
... give away a place , said Louis XIV . , I make a hundred discontented and one ungrateful . Much has been said of the equality and independence which he preserved in his conversation with the Ministers , of the frankness of his ...
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... give an account of another's studies ? Swift was not likely to admit any to his privacies , or to impart a minute account of his business or his leisure . Soon after ( 1716 ) , in his forty - ninth year , he was privately married to Mrs ...
... give an account of another's studies ? Swift was not likely to admit any to his privacies , or to impart a minute account of his business or his leisure . Soon after ( 1716 ) , in his forty - ninth year , he was privately married to Mrs ...
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... give place to obloquy . And Stella retired ( upon the earnest invitation of the owner ) to the house of a cheerful , generous , good - natured friend of the Dean's , whom she also much loved and honoured . There my informer often saw ...
... give place to obloquy . And Stella retired ( upon the earnest invitation of the owner ) to the house of a cheerful , generous , good - natured friend of the Dean's , whom she also much loved and honoured . There my informer often saw ...
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... give every one a shilling , that they might please themselves with their provision . At last his avarice grew too powerful for his kindness ; he would refuse a bottle of wine , and in Ireland no man visits where he cannot drink . Having ...
... give every one a shilling , that they might please themselves with their provision . At last his avarice grew too powerful for his kindness ; he would refuse a bottle of wine , and in Ireland no man visits where he cannot drink . Having ...
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