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... poem , written as it was at a time of Stella's increasing illness . It was her last birthday ; she died on 28th January 1727/8 . The only other woman who appears to have played any significant part in Swift's life , and that for an ...
... poem , written as it was at a time of Stella's increasing illness . It was her last birthday ; she died on 28th January 1727/8 . The only other woman who appears to have played any significant part in Swift's life , and that for an ...
Page xvii
... poem such as ' Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ' consists of moral statements about the abiding commonplaces - fleeting and delusive joys , the vanity of ambition , the awareness of mortality , and the like , dear to the heart ...
... poem such as ' Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ' consists of moral statements about the abiding commonplaces - fleeting and delusive joys , the vanity of ambition , the awareness of mortality , and the like , dear to the heart ...
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... Poem finish'd , next your Care Is needful , to transcribe it fair . In modern Wit all printed Trash , is Set off with num'rous Breaks- -and Dashes- To Statesmen wou'd you give a Wipe , You print it in Italick Type . When Letters are in ...
... Poem finish'd , next your Care Is needful , to transcribe it fair . In modern Wit all printed Trash , is Set off with num'rous Breaks- -and Dashes- To Statesmen wou'd you give a Wipe , You print it in Italick Type . When Letters are in ...
Contents
A Description of the Morning | 8 |
Horace Lib 2 Sat 6 | 28 |
A Satirical Elegy on the Death | 34 |
Copyright | |
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