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... letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these ver- ses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died ...
... letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these ver- ses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died ...
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... letter to the October club , " a number of tory gentlemen sent from the coun- try to parliament , who formed themselves into a club , to the number of about a hundred , and met to animate the zeal , and raise the expectations of each ...
... letter to the October club , " a number of tory gentlemen sent from the coun- try to parliament , who formed themselves into a club , to the number of about a hundred , and met to animate the zeal , and raise the expectations of each ...
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... letter to the earl of Oxford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature of lan- guage , and without any accurate inquiry into the his- tory of other tongues . The certainty and stability which , contrary to all experience ...
... letter to the earl of Oxford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature of lan- guage , and without any accurate inquiry into the his- tory of other tongues . The certainty and stability which , contrary to all experience ...
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... letters , took pleasure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a ...
... letters , took pleasure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a ...
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... Letters " in 1724. One Wood , of Wolverhampton , in Staffordshire , a man enterpris- ing and rapacious , had , as is said , by a present to the duchess of Munster , obtained a patent , empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty ...
... Letters " in 1724. One Wood , of Wolverhampton , in Staffordshire , a man enterpris- ing and rapacious , had , as is said , by a present to the duchess of Munster , obtained a patent , empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty ...
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