Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 |
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... praise due to the historian of those strong facts ? No , Sir , Swift has told what he had to tell distinctly enough , but that is all . He had to count ten , and he has counted it right . Why , Sir , Tom Davies might have written The ...
... praise due to the historian of those strong facts ? No , Sir , Swift has told what he had to tell distinctly enough , but that is all . He had to count ten , and he has counted it right . Why , Sir , Tom Davies might have written The ...
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... praise , she grew fond of his person 5. Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that everything that came from England , except their ...
... praise , she grew fond of his person 5. Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that everything that came from England , except their ...
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... praise a comparison of Arbuthnot's , who , in Nov. 1723 , wrote to Swift : - ' You are in the case of the man who held the whole night by a broom bush , and found , when daylight appeared , he was within two inches of the ground ...
... praise a comparison of Arbuthnot's , who , in Nov. 1723 , wrote to Swift : - ' You are in the case of the man who held the whole night by a broom bush , and found , when daylight appeared , he was within two inches of the ground ...
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... praises 2 ? As his years increased his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made ... praise from printing that he could not well live without it . ' I ' In the end he was almost totally engrossed by ...
... praises 2 ? As his years increased his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made ... praise from printing that he could not well live without it . ' I ' In the end he was almost totally engrossed by ...
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... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactick , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inattention by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactick , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inattention by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
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