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... Ireland , had lived in great familiarity of friendship with Godwin Swift , by whom Jonathan had been to that time maintained . 1 2 Temple received with sufficient kindness the nephew of his father's friend , with whom he was , when they ...
... Ireland , had lived in great familiarity of friendship with Godwin Swift , by whom Jonathan had been to that time maintained . 1 2 Temple received with sufficient kindness the nephew of his father's friend , with whom he was , when they ...
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... Ireland he contracted a disorder , 2 as he thought , by eating too much fruit . The original of diseases is commonly obscure . Almost every boy eats as much fruit as he can get , without any great inconvenience . The disease of Swift ...
... Ireland he contracted a disorder , 2 as he thought , by eating too much fruit . The original of diseases is commonly obscure . Almost every boy eats as much fruit as he can get , without any great inconvenience . The disease of Swift ...
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... Ireland ; 3 which , according to his kinsman's account , * was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore resolved to enter into the Church , in which he had at first no higher hopes than of the chaplainship to ...
... Ireland ; 3 which , according to his kinsman's account , * was an office which he knew him not able to discharge . Swift therefore resolved to enter into the Church , in which he had at first no higher hopes than of the chaplainship to ...
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... but did not resign his living of Kilroot , till March , 1697-8 . Forster , p . 80 . 2 Lord Berkeley was newly appointed one of the Lords Justices of Ire- pany him into Ireland , as his private secretary ; 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... but did not resign his living of Kilroot , till March , 1697-8 . Forster , p . 80 . 2 Lord Berkeley was newly appointed one of the Lords Justices of Ire- pany him into Ireland , as his private secretary ; 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. pany him into Ireland , as his private secretary ; ' but after having done the business till their arrival in Dublin , he then found that one Bush had persuaded the Earl that a Clergyman was not a proper ...
Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. pany him into Ireland , as his private secretary ; ' but after having done the business till their arrival in Dublin , he then found that one Bush had persuaded the Earl that a Clergyman was not a proper ...
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Sivu 22 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Sivu 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Sivu 18 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
Sivu 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Sivu 23 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5*. each. Life of Mary Queen of Soots. 2 vols. 5*. each. Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses. With Portraits. 5*.
Sivu 20 - Craven.' With 62 Engravings on Wood after Harvey, and 9 Engravings on Steel, chiefly after A. Cooper, RA 5*.
Sivu 182 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
Sivu 5 - CASTLE (E.) Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. By Egerton Castle, MA, FSA With a Complete Bibliography. Illustrated with 140 Reproductions of Old Engravings and 6 Plates of Swords, showing 114 Examples. 6s.
Sivu 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Sivu 9 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.