The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... Letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verfes , faid , " Coufin Swift , you will " never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dry- den . In 1699 Temple died ...
... Letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verfes , faid , " Coufin Swift , you will " never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dry- den . In 1699 Temple died ...
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... Letter to the Octo- " ber Club , " a number of Tory Gentlemen fent from the country to parliament , who formed them- felves into a club , to the number of about a hun- dred , and met to animate the zeal and raife the ex- pectations of ...
... Letter to the Octo- " ber Club , " a number of Tory Gentlemen fent from the country to parliament , who formed them- felves into a club , to the number of about a hun- dred , and met to animate the zeal and raife the ex- pectations of ...
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... Letter to the Earl of Ox- ford ; written without much knowledge of the gene- ral nature of language , and without any accurate enquiry into the hiftory of other tongues . The cer- tainty and stability which , contrary to all experience ...
... Letter to the Earl of Ox- ford ; written without much knowledge of the gene- ral nature of language , and without any accurate enquiry into the hiftory of other tongues . The cer- tainty and stability which , contrary to all experience ...
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... letters , took pleasure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , fhe grew fond of his perfon . Swift was then about forty- seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a ...
... letters , took pleasure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , fhe grew fond of his perfon . Swift was then about forty- seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a ...
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... Letters " in 1724. One Wood , of Wolverhampton , in Staffordshire , a man enterprifing and rapacious , had , as is faid , by a pre- fent to the Duchefs of Munfter , obtained a patent , empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty ...
... Letters " in 1724. One Wood , of Wolverhampton , in Staffordshire , a man enterprifing and rapacious , had , as is faid , by a pre- fent to the Duchefs of Munfter , obtained a patent , empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty ...
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