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... praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that Swift should have checked a passion which he never ...
... praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that Swift should have checked a passion which he never ...
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... praises ? As his years increased , his fits of giddiness and deaf- ness grew more frequent , and his deafness made con- versation difficult : they grew likewise more severe , till in 1736 , as he was writing a poem called The Legion ...
... praises ? As his years increased , his fits of giddiness and deaf- ness grew more frequent , and his deafness made con- versation difficult : they grew likewise more severe , till in 1736 , as he was writing a poem called The Legion ...
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... praise . For purposes merely didactic , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode ; but against that inattention by which known truths are suffered to lie neglected it makes no provision ; it instructs ...
... praise . For purposes merely didactic , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode ; but against that inattention by which known truths are suffered to lie neglected it makes no provision ; it instructs ...
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... praise ; but of Sandys , he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely at- tempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his ...
... praise ; but of Sandys , he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely at- tempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his ...
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... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with hu- man life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windsor forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources ...
... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with hu- man life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windsor forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources ...
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