Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 pages |
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... an Englishman . The queftion may , without much regret , be left in the obscurity in which he de- lighted to involve it . Spence's Anecdotes , vol . II . p . 273 . What Whatever was his birth , his educa- tion was Irifh 2 SWIFT .
... an Englishman . The queftion may , without much regret , be left in the obscurity in which he de- lighted to involve it . Spence's Anecdotes , vol . II . p . 273 . What Whatever was his birth , his educa- tion was Irifh 2 SWIFT .
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... tion , that , when at the ufual time he elaimed the Bachelorfhip of Arts , he was found by the examiners too confpi- cuously deficient for regular admiffion , and obtained his degree at laft by Special favour ; a term used in that ...
... tion , that , when at the ufual time he elaimed the Bachelorfhip of Arts , he was found by the examiners too confpi- cuously deficient for regular admiffion , and obtained his degree at laft by Special favour ; a term used in that ...
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... ex- 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.
... ex- 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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Samuel Johnson. lived on together with mutual fatisfac- tion ; and , in the four years that paffed between his return and Temple's death , it is probable that he wrote the Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books . Swift began early to ...
Samuel Johnson. lived on together with mutual fatisfac- tion ; and , in the four years that paffed between his return and Temple's death , it is probable that he wrote the Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books . Swift began early to ...
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... tion concerning the Ancients and Mo- derns had produced in France , that the improbability of fuch a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anony- mous proteftation prefixed , in which all ...
... tion concerning the Ancients and Mo- derns had produced in France , that the improbability of fuch a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anony- mous proteftation prefixed , in which all ...
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