The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 1A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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Page viii
... prefent ; and his Lordship's wishes , it is hoped , will be in fome measure answered in the method by which it has been conducted . * Thefe three pieces , fays Lord Orrery , although not abfolutely owned by the Dean , aut Erafmi funt ...
... prefent ; and his Lordship's wishes , it is hoped , will be in fome measure answered in the method by which it has been conducted . * Thefe three pieces , fays Lord Orrery , although not abfolutely owned by the Dean , aut Erafmi funt ...
Page xv
... prefent , of 545 , 170 lines being taken into it from the Dublin edition . In the poem intitled , The life and character of Dr. Swift , there are 61 lines which are also to be found in the Verfes on the death of Dr. Swift , as in ...
... prefent , of 545 , 170 lines being taken into it from the Dublin edition . In the poem intitled , The life and character of Dr. Swift , there are 61 lines which are also to be found in the Verfes on the death of Dr. Swift , as in ...
Page xxx
... prefent not a fixth . The excufe pretended was his being too young , although he were then thirty years old † . * See a poem upon this incident , in vol . 7. p . 134 . He was then upwards of two and thirty years old . N. B. All the ...
... prefent not a fixth . The excufe pretended was his being too young , although he were then thirty years old † . * See a poem upon this incident , in vol . 7. p . 134 . He was then upwards of two and thirty years old . N. B. All the ...
Page xxxvii
... prefent fubfiftence . merely from the precarious bounty of an uncle , and hav- ing no other object of hope but the continuance of it * , that he could not refift the temptation to neglect many ne- * While Swift was at the university ...
... prefent fubfiftence . merely from the precarious bounty of an uncle , and hav- ing no other object of hope but the continuance of it * , that he could not refift the temptation to neglect many ne- * While Swift was at the university ...
Page xxxviii
... prefent , whether it be a folly or a fault , is feldom unpunifhed ; and Swift foon found him- felf in the fituation of a man who had burned his bed to warm his hands ; for , at the end of four years , in the 1685 , he was refufed his ...
... prefent , whether it be a folly or a fault , is feldom unpunifhed ; and Swift foon found him- felf in the fituation of a man who had burned his bed to warm his hands ; for , at the end of four years , in the 1685 , he was refufed his ...
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