The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... expected to say much of a life , concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment . Jonathan Swift was , according to an ...
... expected to say much of a life , concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with so much elegance of language and force of sentiment . Jonathan Swift was , according to an ...
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... expected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence , supposed to have been secured by a bribe , it was bestowed on somebody else , and Swift was dismissed with the livings of Laracor and Rathbeggin in the diocese of Meath , which ...
... expected to obtain it ; but by the secretary's influence , supposed to have been secured by a bribe , it was bestowed on somebody else , and Swift was dismissed with the livings of Laracor and Rathbeggin in the diocese of Meath , which ...
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... expected to do every man's business , to procure employment for one , and to retain it for another . In assisting those who addressed him , he represents himself as sufficiently diligent ; and desires to have others believe , what he ...
... expected to do every man's business , to procure employment for one , and to retain it for another . In assisting those who addressed him , he represents himself as sufficiently diligent ; and desires to have others believe , what he ...
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... expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity ; but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed imperiousness , in which he was ironical only to the resentful , and to the submissive sufficiently serious . He ...
... expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity ; but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed imperiousness , in which he was ironical only to the resentful , and to the submissive sufficiently serious . He ...
Pàgina 38
... expected to find an imitator ; ' But thou , O Muse , whose sweet nepenthean tongue Can charm the pangs of death with deathless song ; Canst stinging plagues with easy thoughts beguile , Make pains and tortures objects of a smile ...
... expected to find an imitator ; ' But thou , O Muse , whose sweet nepenthean tongue Can charm the pangs of death with deathless song ; Canst stinging plagues with easy thoughts beguile , Make pains and tortures objects of a smile ...
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