The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Količina 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... death of Godwin Swift , his uncle , who had supported him , left without subsistence , he went to consult his mother , who then lived at Leicester , about the future course of his life , and by her direction solicited the advice and ...
... death of Godwin Swift , his uncle , who had supported him , left without subsistence , he went to consult his mother , who then lived at Leicester , about the future course of his life , and by her direction solicited the advice and ...
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... death , it is probable that he 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 Pindaric odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot ...
... death , it is probable that he 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 Pindaric odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot ...
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... an English cathedral . He refused , indeed , fifty pounds from Lord Oxford ; but he accepted afterwards a draft of a thousand upon the Exchequer , which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which 12 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... an English cathedral . He refused , indeed , fifty pounds from Lord Oxford ; but he accepted afterwards a draft of a thousand upon the Exchequer , which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which 12 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which he resigned , as he says himself , multa gemens , with many a groan . In the midst of his power and his politics , he kept a journal of his ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which he resigned , as he says himself , multa gemens , with many a groan . In the midst of his power and his politics , he kept a journal of his ...
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... death of the Queen broke down at once the whole system of Tory politics ; and nothing remained but to withdraw from the implacability of tri- umphant Whiggism , and shelter himself in unenvied obscurity . The accounts of his reception ...
... death of the Queen broke down at once the whole system of Tory politics ; and nothing remained but to withdraw from the implacability of tri- umphant Whiggism , and shelter himself in unenvied obscurity . The accounts of his reception ...
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