Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... Phalaris , the tyrant of Agrigentum , in Sicily , famous for his brazen bull , by the Honourable Charles Boyle ( after- wards Earl of Orrery ) . In the preface to his book , which was published in the beginning of the year 1695 , Boyle ...
... Phalaris , the tyrant of Agrigentum , in Sicily , famous for his brazen bull , by the Honourable Charles Boyle ( after- wards Earl of Orrery ) . In the preface to his book , which was published in the beginning of the year 1695 , Boyle ...
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... Phalaris , ' is now , in truth , universally considered to have established the spurious- ness of the Epistles conclusively and unanswerably . An answer , however , was produced to it in the following year ( 1698 ) , under the title of ...
... Phalaris , ' is now , in truth , universally considered to have established the spurious- ness of the Epistles conclusively and unanswerably . An answer , however , was produced to it in the following year ( 1698 ) , under the title of ...
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... Phalaris are as much buried as the walls of Troy itself . Both combatants were skilful in wielding the sword : the arms of Boyle , in Swift's language , were given him by all the gods ; † but his antagonist stood * Article on Bentley ...
... Phalaris are as much buried as the walls of Troy itself . Both combatants were skilful in wielding the sword : the arms of Boyle , in Swift's language , were given him by all the gods ; † but his antagonist stood * Article on Bentley ...
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... Phalaris had formed all along only a branch of a larger controversy , which was kept up for some years after the question of Phalaris had been set at rest and abandoned on all hands . It was Swift's relation and patron , Sir William ...
... Phalaris had formed all along only a branch of a larger controversy , which was kept up for some years after the question of Phalaris had been set at rest and abandoned on all hands . It was Swift's relation and patron , Sir William ...
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... Phalaris and Aesop , lay fast asleep ; Bentley would fain have dispatched them both , and , stealing close , aimed his flail at Phalaris's breast . But then the goddess Affright , interposing , SWIFT . 63 83.
... Phalaris and Aesop , lay fast asleep ; Bentley would fain have dispatched them both , and , stealing close , aimed his flail at Phalaris's breast . But then the goddess Affright , interposing , SWIFT . 63 83.
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