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It is fit ” ( faith the Doctor ) " it should answer the pains I have been at about it , "
Some lay it to Prior , others to Mr Secretary St John ; but I am always the first they
lay every thing to . " ( Dec. 2. ] However , within four days after it was published ...
It is fit ” ( faith the Doctor ) " it should answer the pains I have been at about it , "
Some lay it to Prior , others to Mr Secretary St John ; but I am always the first they
lay every thing to . " ( Dec. 2. ] However , within four days after it was published ...
Page lx
... an answer , and delivered it with his own hand . As this letter of Vaneffa's ,
which was written in 1723 , is a demonstration that she was then utterly ignorant
of the Dean's marriage with Stella , ' and as she appears to have known it almost
...
... an answer , and delivered it with his own hand . As this letter of Vaneffa's ,
which was written in 1723 , is a demonstration that she was then utterly ignorant
of the Dean's marriage with Stella , ' and as she appears to have known it almost
...
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I Mall answer that question by asking another . Why did not Swift marry this
adorable creature in or about the year 1702 ? was he not exactly at that æra thirty
- five , just rising into the meridian of his abilities ; and Mrs Johnson nineteen , in
the ...
I Mall answer that question by asking another . Why did not Swift marry this
adorable creature in or about the year 1702 ? was he not exactly at that æra thirty
- five , just rising into the meridian of his abilities ; and Mrs Johnson nineteen , in
the ...
Page lxxvi
When this paper was delivered , Swift was in bed , giddy and deaf , having been
fome time before seized with one of his fits ; but he dictated an answer in which
there is all the dignity of habitual pre - eminence , and all the resignation of ...
When this paper was delivered , Swift was in bed , giddy and deaf , having been
fome time before seized with one of his fits ; but he dictated an answer in which
there is all the dignity of habitual pre - eminence , and all the resignation of ...
Page lxxviii
... but the Dean , in a letter to Lord Orrery , which he wrote a short time before his
incapacity , fays , " When you fee my dear “ friend Pope , tell him , I will answer his
letter foon ; “ I love him above all the rejl of mankind . " ( vol . 4. p . 3. ) . He has ...
... but the Dean , in a letter to Lord Orrery , which he wrote a short time before his
incapacity , fays , " When you fee my dear “ friend Pope , tell him , I will answer his
letter foon ; “ I love him above all the rejl of mankind . " ( vol . 4. p . 3. ) . He has ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... Volume 1 of The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher | G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2005 |
| Length | 2984 pages |
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