The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1766 |
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... whose name also was Thomas , and who died in 1752 rector of Put- Sketth tenham in Surry , a benefice which he had pof- and note . feffed threefcore years . * The grandmother of this gentleman , one of the wives of Godzvin Swift , was ...
... whose name also was Thomas , and who died in 1752 rector of Put- Sketth tenham in Surry , a benefice which he had pof- and note . feffed threefcore years . * The grandmother of this gentleman , one of the wives of Godzvin Swift , was ...
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... whose whole fortune , though fhe was related to fir William , was no more than an annuity of twenty - feven pounds . Whether Swift at this time defired the company of Stella as a wife or a friend is not certain , but the reafon which ...
... whose whole fortune , though fhe was related to fir William , was no more than an annuity of twenty - feven pounds . Whether Swift at this time defired the company of Stella as a wife or a friend is not certain , but the reafon which ...
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... whose pretenfions or circumstances were the fame . When he was defired by lord Oxford to introduce doctor Parnel , to his acquaintance , he refused upon this principle , that a man of genius was a character fuperior to that of a lord in ...
... whose pretenfions or circumstances were the fame . When he was defired by lord Oxford to introduce doctor Parnel , to his acquaintance , he refused upon this principle , that a man of genius was a character fuperior to that of a lord in ...
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... whose characters are excellent in the highest degree . Such was the fate of Vaneffa ; and furely thofe whom pity could not reftrain from being diligent to load her memory with reproach , to conftrue appearances in the worft fenfe , to ...
... whose characters are excellent in the highest degree . Such was the fate of Vaneffa ; and furely thofe whom pity could not reftrain from being diligent to load her memory with reproach , to conftrue appearances in the worft fenfe , to ...
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... whose long train happened to fweep down a fine fidule , and break it , upon which he immediately cried out , Mantua va miferæ nimium vicina Cremona . But his conversation abounded with turns of wit of an higher kind : being one day at a ...
... whose long train happened to fweep down a fine fidule , and break it , upon which he immediately cried out , Mantua va miferæ nimium vicina Cremona . But his conversation abounded with turns of wit of an higher kind : being one day at a ...
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