The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 1C. Pathurst, 1754 |
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Page viii
... moft of his nearest friends : yet several have gone a farther ftep , and pronounced another book * to have been the work of the fame hand with this : which the author directly affirms to be a thorough mistake ; he having yet never fo ...
... moft of his nearest friends : yet several have gone a farther ftep , and pronounced another book * to have been the work of the fame hand with this : which the author directly affirms to be a thorough mistake ; he having yet never fo ...
Page ix
... moft liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the style and manner of other writers , whom he has a mind to expose . I fhall produce one inftance ; it is in the 61ft page . Dryden , L ' Eftrange ...
... moft liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the style and manner of other writers , whom he has a mind to expose . I fhall produce one inftance ; it is in the 61ft page . Dryden , L ' Eftrange ...
Page xv
... moft accomplished perfon ; it was obferved , how he was pleased , and affect- ed to have that noble writer called his ad- versary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fufficiently ...
... moft accomplished perfon ; it was obferved , how he was pleased , and affect- ed to have that noble writer called his ad- versary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fufficiently ...
Page 36
... moft intimate friendship of more than fixteen years ; this was in the year 1716 , and the ceremony was performed by Dr. Afbe , then bishop of Clogher , to whom the dean had been a pupil in Tri- nity College , Dublin . But , whatever ...
... moft intimate friendship of more than fixteen years ; this was in the year 1716 , and the ceremony was performed by Dr. Afbe , then bishop of Clogher , to whom the dean had been a pupil in Tri- nity College , Dublin . But , whatever ...
Page 37
... moft excellent bishop of Cloyne , the late judge Lindsay , and the lord chief justice Marley . The dean appears still to have preferved the character of her preceptor , to have directed her pro- grefs in literature , and explained and ...
... moft excellent bishop of Cloyne , the late judge Lindsay , and the lord chief justice Marley . The dean appears still to have preferved the character of her preceptor , to have directed her pro- grefs in literature , and explained and ...
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