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... Swift - 1667-1745 , Alexander Pope - 1688-1744 , PAGE · 9 • · 14 • 17 • • • • • • 25 22222289 32 39 45 49 52 59 • 62 · · • • £ ** ON R88 86 90 99 105 109 66 72 76 82 James Thomson - 1700-1748 , Oliver Goldsmith - 1728-1774 , ' . Dr ...
... Swift - 1667-1745 , Alexander Pope - 1688-1744 , PAGE · 9 • · 14 • 17 • • • • • • 25 22222289 32 39 45 49 52 59 • 62 · · • • £ ** ON R88 86 90 99 105 109 66 72 76 82 James Thomson - 1700-1748 , Oliver Goldsmith - 1728-1774 , ' . Dr ...
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... Swift also was among the contributors . By far the greater part of the Tatler , however , was written by Steele ; two hundred , out of the two hundred and seventy - one numbers of which it consists , being wholly or chiefly his ...
... Swift also was among the contributors . By far the greater part of the Tatler , however , was written by Steele ; two hundred , out of the two hundred and seventy - one numbers of which it consists , being wholly or chiefly his ...
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... Swift had written some violent articles . Shortly afterwards he wrote to Lord Oxford , and resigned his official appoint- ments . Steele now threw himself earnestly into political war- fare . He obtained a seat in Parliament as member ...
... Swift had written some violent articles . Shortly afterwards he wrote to Lord Oxford , and resigned his official appoint- ments . Steele now threw himself earnestly into political war- fare . He obtained a seat in Parliament as member ...
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... SWIFT . - 1667-1745 . JONATHAN SWIFT , the celebrated Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral , Dublin , was descended from an ancient York- shire family . His father was bred to the law , and having settled in Ireland , was appointed steward ...
... SWIFT . - 1667-1745 . JONATHAN SWIFT , the celebrated Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral , Dublin , was descended from an ancient York- shire family . His father was bred to the law , and having settled in Ireland , was appointed steward ...
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... Swift then came to England to consult his mother , who at this time was living at Leicester , about the future course of his life . Under his mother's direc- tion he made application to Sir W. Temple , who had married one of Swift's ...
... Swift then came to England to consult his mother , who at this time was living at Leicester , about the future course of his life . Under his mother's direc- tion he made application to Sir W. Temple , who had married one of Swift's ...
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Page 36 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 37 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 129 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 205 - Wordsworth on the other hand, |was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor...
Page 113 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Page 209 - Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native Mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such employment. As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in Verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them.
Page 127 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 35 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 205 - ... modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both.
Page 154 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.