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... diverting others just as we diverted ourselves . Letter of Pope to Swift , March 8 , 1726-7 . 2 reader reader will have the whole in his poffeffion , he 4 THE PREFACE .
... diverting others just as we diverted ourselves . Letter of Pope to Swift , March 8 , 1726-7 . 2 reader reader will have the whole in his poffeffion , he 4 THE PREFACE .
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reader will have the whole in his poffeffion , he may perfue either the grave or the gay with very little trouble , and without lofing any pleasure or intelligence which he would have gained from a different arrangement .
reader will have the whole in his poffeffion , he may perfue either the grave or the gay with very little trouble , and without lofing any pleasure or intelligence which he would have gained from a different arrangement .
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For the hiftory of his works the reader is referred to them , and to the notes and remarks that are now added . Doctor Jonathan Swift was defcended from a younger branch of an ancient family of that name in YorkJhire .
For the hiftory of his works the reader is referred to them , and to the notes and remarks that are now added . Doctor Jonathan Swift was defcended from a younger branch of an ancient family of that name in YorkJhire .
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... call Melchifedeck , because Melchifedeck is faid to have had neither father nor mother ; this gentleman's name was Worral , he was a clergyman , a master of arts , a reader , and a vicar of his cathedral , and mafter of the fong .
... call Melchifedeck , because Melchifedeck is faid to have had neither father nor mother ; this gentleman's name was Worral , he was a clergyman , a master of arts , a reader , and a vicar of his cathedral , and mafter of the fong .
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There is one thing which the judicious reader cannot but have obferved , that fome of those paffages in this difcourfe , which appear most liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the ftyle and ...
There is one thing which the judicious reader cannot but have obferved , that fome of those paffages in this difcourfe , which appear most liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the ftyle and ...
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| Title | The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift Volume 1 of 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, Jonathan Swift The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Editors | John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift |
| Publisher | W. Bowyer, 1768 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2009 |
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