The lives of the English poetsF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... given reason for com- plaint , is said to have made him Deputy Master of the Rolls in Ireland ; which , according to his kinsman's account , was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore resolved to enter into ...
... given reason for com- plaint , is said to have made him Deputy Master of the Rolls in Ireland ; which , according to his kinsman's account , was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore resolved to enter into ...
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... given to one affords all the rest a reason for complaint . " When I give away a place , " said Lewis XIV . " I make an hundred discontented , and one ungrateful . ” Much has been said of the equality and indepen- dence which he ...
... given to one affords all the rest a reason for complaint . " When I give away a place , " said Lewis XIV . " I make an hundred discontented , and one ungrateful . ” Much has been said of the equality and indepen- dence which he ...
Sivu 17
... given away ; and the friends of power may , if there be no inherent disqualification , reasonably expect them . Swift accepted ( 1713 ) the deanery of St. Patrick , the best preferment that his friends could venture to give him . That ...
... given away ; and the friends of power may , if there be no inherent disqualification , reasonably expect them . Swift accepted ( 1713 ) the deanery of St. Patrick , the best preferment that his friends could venture to give him . That ...
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... given by Lord Orrery and Dr. Delany , are so different , that the credit of the writers , both undoubtedly veracious , cannot be saved , but by supposing , what I think is true , that they speak of different times . When Delany says ...
... given by Lord Orrery and Dr. Delany , are so different , that the credit of the writers , both undoubtedly veracious , cannot be saved , but by supposing , what I think is true , that they speak of different times . When Delany says ...
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... he had rescued Ireland from a very oppressive and predatory inva- * An account somewhat different from this is given by Mr. Sheridan in his Life of Swift , p . 511. R. sion ; and the popularity which he had gained he 26 SWIFT .
... he had rescued Ireland from a very oppressive and predatory inva- * An account somewhat different from this is given by Mr. Sheridan in his Life of Swift , p . 511. R. sion ; and the popularity which he had gained he 26 SWIFT .
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