Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 pages |
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Page 11
... hopes than of the chaplainship to the Factory at Lisbon ; but being re- commended to 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 ...
... hopes than of the chaplainship to the Factory at Lisbon ; but being re- commended to 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 ...
Page 12
... hope , that he was a poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obfcure men , who published a periodical pamphlet of anfwers to questions , fent , or fuppofed to be fent , by ...
... hope , that he was a poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obfcure men , who published a periodical pamphlet of anfwers to questions , fent , or fuppofed to be fent , by ...
Page 40
... hope of information ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is difap- pointed he can hardly complain . It is eafy to perceive , from every page , that though ambition preffed Swift into a life of of buftle , the wifh ...
... hope of information ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is difap- pointed he can hardly complain . It is eafy to perceive , from every page , that though ambition preffed Swift into a life of of buftle , the wifh ...
Page 52
... his own mind , and , as he re- prefents himself , was undetermined . For his admiffion of her courtship , and his " indulgence of her hopes after his mar- riage to Stella indul- 52 SWIFT . known to be minutely repeated. She ...
... his own mind , and , as he re- prefents himself , was undetermined . For his admiffion of her courtship , and his " indulgence of her hopes after his mar- riage to Stella indul- 52 SWIFT . known to be minutely repeated. She ...
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Samuel Johnson. indulgence of her hopes after his mar- riage to Stella , no other honeft plea can be found , than that he delayed a dif agreeable difcovery from time to time , dreading the immediate burft of diftrefs , and watching for a ...
Samuel Johnson. indulgence of her hopes after his mar- riage to Stella , no other honeft plea can be found , than that he delayed a dif agreeable difcovery from time to time , dreading the immediate burft of diftrefs , and watching for a ...
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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