Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 páginas |
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... wrote the Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books . Swift began early to think , or to 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 ...
... wrote the Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books . Swift began early to think , or to 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 ...
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... wrote a Pro- jet for the Advancement of Religion , ad- dreffed to Lady Berkley ; by whofe kind- ness it is not unlikely that he was ad- vanced to his benefices . To this pro-- ject , which is formed with great purity of intention , and ...
... wrote a Pro- jet for the Advancement of Religion , ad- dreffed to Lady Berkley ; by whofe kind- ness it is not unlikely that he was ad- vanced to his benefices . To this pro-- ject , which is formed with great purity of intention , and ...
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... wrote thirty - three papers . In argu- ment he may be allowed to have the ad- vantage ; for where a wide fyftem of con- duct , and the whole of a publick character , is laid open to enquiry , the accufer having the choice of facts ...
... wrote thirty - three papers . In argu- ment he may be allowed to have the ad- vantage ; for where a wide fyftem of con- duct , and the whole of a publick character , is laid open to enquiry , the accufer having the choice of facts ...
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... wrote the fame year a Letter to the October Club , a number of Tory Gen- tlemen fent from the country to Parlia- liament , who formed themselves into a club , to the number of about a hun- dred , and met to animate the zeal and raise ...
... wrote the fame year a Letter to the October Club , a number of Tory Gen- tlemen fent from the country to Parlia- liament , who formed themselves into a club , to the number of about a hun- dred , and met to animate the zeal and raise ...
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... wrote what was then fuppreffed , but has fince appeared under the title of Free Thoughts on the prefent State of Affairs . While he was waiting in this retire- ment for events which time or chance might bring to pafs , the death of the ...
... wrote what was then fuppreffed , but has fince appeared under the title of Free Thoughts on the prefent State of Affairs . While he was waiting in this retire- ment for events which time or chance might bring to pafs , the death of the ...
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