Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 pages |
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... an yearly vifit . He travelled on foot , unless fome violence of weather drove him into a waggon , and at night he would go to a penny lodging , where he purchased clean clean fheets for fix - pence . This prac tice SWIFT . 9.
... an yearly vifit . He travelled on foot , unless fome violence of weather drove him into a waggon , and at night he would go to a penny lodging , where he purchased clean clean fheets for fix - pence . This prac tice SWIFT . 9.
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... fome may ascribe it to his defire of furveying human life through all its varieties ; and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a paffion which feems to have been deep fixed in his heart , the love of a fhilling . In time he ...
... fome may ascribe it to his defire of furveying human life through all its varieties ; and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a paffion which feems to have been deep fixed in his heart , the love of a fhilling . In time he ...
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... fome bishop , he heard mention made of the new pam-- phlet that Burnet had written , replete with political knowledge . When he feemed to doubt Burnet's right to the work , he was told by the Bishop , that he he was a young man ; and ...
... fome bishop , he heard mention made of the new pam-- phlet that Burnet had written , replete with political knowledge . When he feemed to doubt Burnet's right to the work , he was told by the Bishop , that he he was a young man ; and ...
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... fome time after Swift was proba- bly employed in folitary ftudy , gaining the qualifications requifite for future eminence . How often he vifited Eng- land , and with what diligence he at- tended his parishes , I know not . It was not ...
... fome time after Swift was proba- bly employed in folitary ftudy , gaining the qualifications requifite for future eminence . How often he vifited Eng- land , and with what diligence he at- tended his parishes , I know not . It was not ...
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... fome of their fchemes . What he had refused , has never been told ; what he had fuffered was , I fuppofe , the exclu- fion from a bishoprick by the remon- ftrances of Sharpe , whom he defcribes as the harmless tool of others hate , and ...
... fome of their fchemes . What he had refused , has never been told ; what he had fuffered was , I fuppofe , the exclu- fion from a bishoprick by the remon- ftrances of Sharpe , whom he defcribes as the harmless tool of others hate , and ...
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affiftance afterwards becauſe Beggar's Opera Broome cenfured church confidered converfation criticiſm deanery death defire Delany diction dili Dublin Dunciad eafily Engliſh eſtabliſhed fafe faid fame fatire fays fchools fecond feems feized feldom fent fervant ferved feven fhew fhould fince firft firſt folicitations fome fometimes foon friends friendſhip ftate ftory ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficiently funk fupped fuppofed fure himſelf honour houfe houſe Iliad increaſed inftruction intereft Ireland JONATHAN SWIFT kindneſs laft laſt leaſt lefs Letters Lord Orrery mafter meaſure moſt muſt neceffary never obferves occafion Orrery paffed paffion Paftoral perfuaded Philips Pitt pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet Pope pounds praiſe prefent princeſs profe publick publiſhed purpoſe Queen raiſe reader reafon refolution Reſtoration rienced ſeems ſome Spence Spenfer Swift Tatler tences Theocritus thofe THOMAS PARNELL thoſe thought tion told tranflation univerfally uſe verfes verſes vifit Whigs whofe write written wrote