Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 pages |
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... kindness to Swift by offering to make him a cap- tain of horse . When Temple removed to Moor - park , he took Swift with him ; and when he was confulted by the Earl of Portland about about the expedience of complying with a bill then ...
... kindness to Swift by offering to make him a cap- tain of horse . When Temple removed to Moor - park , he took Swift with him ; and when he was confulted by the Earl of Portland about about the expedience of complying with a bill then ...
Page 38
... kindness of those that wanted him no longer ; and therefore it must be allowed , that the childish free- dom , to which he seems enough in- clined , was overpowered by his better qualities . His difintereftednefs has been likewife ...
... kindness of those that wanted him no longer ; and therefore it must be allowed , that the childish free- dom , to which he seems enough in- clined , was overpowered by his better qualities . His difintereftednefs has been likewife ...
Page 60
... confequence was feared and courted by all to whom the kindness of the traders or the populace was neceffary . The Drapier was a fign ; the Drapier was a health ; and which way way foever the eye or the ear was turned , 60 SWIFT .
... confequence was feared and courted by all to whom the kindness of the traders or the populace was neceffary . The Drapier was a fign ; the Drapier was a health ; and which way way foever the eye or the ear was turned , 60 SWIFT .
Page 66
... kindness of Mrs. Howard , re- membering what Mrs. Mafham had per- formed in former times ; but his flat- teries were , like thofe of the other wits , unfuccefsful ; the Lady either wanted power , or had no ambition of poetical ...
... kindness of Mrs. Howard , re- membering what Mrs. Mafham had per- formed in former times ; but his flat- teries were , like thofe of the other wits , unfuccefsful ; the Lady either wanted power , or had no ambition of poetical ...
Page 78
... kindness ; he would refufe a bottle of wine , and in Ireland no man vifits where he cannot drink . Having thus excluded converfation , and defifted from ftudy , Having 78 SWIFT . till in 1736, as he was writing a poem ...
... kindness ; he would refufe a bottle of wine , and in Ireland no man vifits where he cannot drink . Having thus excluded converfation , and defifted from ftudy , Having 78 SWIFT . till in 1736, as he was writing a poem ...
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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