Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 pages |
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... 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 began to think that his attendance at Moor - park deserved some other recompenfe than the pleasure ...
... 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 began to think that his attendance at Moor - park deserved some other recompenfe than the pleasure ...
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... - change for the prebend which he defired him to refign . With this request Swift quickly complied , having perhaps equal- ly repented their feparation , and they lived lived on together with mutual fatisfac- tion ; and , S WIF T. II.
... - change for the prebend which he defired him to refign . With this request Swift quickly complied , having perhaps equal- ly repented their feparation , and they lived lived on together with mutual fatisfac- tion ; and , S WIF T. II.
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... perhaps the only , topick we have left . " Who would ever have fufpected Afgill " for a wit , or Toland for a philofo- 66 pher , if the inexhauftible ftock of Christianity had not been at hand to " provide them with materials ? What ...
... perhaps the only , topick we have left . " Who would ever have fufpected Afgill " for a wit , or Toland for a philofo- 66 pher , if the inexhauftible ftock of Christianity had not been at hand to " provide them with materials ? What ...
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... perhaps it must be allowed that the proper teft has not been chofen .. The attention paid to the papers published under the name of Bickerstaff , induced Steele , when he projected the Tatler , to affume an appellation which : had had ...
... perhaps it must be allowed that the proper teft has not been chofen .. The attention paid to the papers published under the name of Bickerstaff , induced Steele , when he projected the Tatler , to affume an appellation which : had had ...
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... perhaps not quick by nature , became yet more flow by irrefolution ; and was content to hear that dilatorinefs lamented as natural , which he applauded in him- self as politick . Without the Tories , however , nothing could be done ...
... perhaps not quick by nature , became yet more flow by irrefolution ; and was content to hear that dilatorinefs lamented as natural , which he applauded in him- self as politick . Without the Tories , however , nothing could be done ...
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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