The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... soon found his solicitations hopeless . He was then invited by the Earl of Berkeley to accompany him into Ireland , as his private secretary ; but after having done the business till their arrival in Dublin , he then found that one Bush ...
... soon found his solicitations hopeless . He was then invited by the Earl of Berkeley to accompany him into Ireland , as his private secretary ; but after having done the business till their arrival in Dublin , he then found that one Bush ...
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... Soon after began the busy and important part of Swift's life . He was employed ( 1710 ) by the primate of Ireland to solicit the Queen for a remission of the First Fruits and Twentieth Parts to the Irish clergy . With this purpose he ...
... Soon after began the busy and important part of Swift's life . He was employed ( 1710 ) by the primate of Ireland to solicit the Queen for a remission of the First Fruits and Twentieth Parts to the Irish clergy . With this purpose he ...
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... soon began to feel part of the misery of greatness ; he that could say he knew him , considered himself as having fortune in his power . Commissions , solicitations , remonstrances , crowded about him ; he was expected to do every man's ...
... soon began to feel part of the misery of greatness ; he that could say he knew him , considered himself as having fortune in his power . Commissions , solicitations , remonstrances , crowded about him ; he was expected to do every man's ...
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... soon as he had obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he might reconcile Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with ...
... soon as he had obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he might reconcile Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with ...
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... soon discovered , that between prudence and integrity he was seldom in the wrong ; and that when he was right , his spirit did not easily yield to opposition . Having so lately quitted the tumults of a party and the intrigues of a court ...
... soon discovered , that between prudence and integrity he was seldom in the wrong ; and that when he was right , his spirit did not easily yield to opposition . Having so lately quitted the tumults of a party and the intrigues of a court ...
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