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" My lord would carry on the jest, And down to Windsor takes his guest. Swift much admires the place and air, And longs to be a canon there ; In summer round the park to ride, In winter — never to reside. A canon ! that's a place too mean : No, doctor,... "
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical ... - Page 111
by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812
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The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 3

Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 392 pages
...down to Windsor takes his guest. Swift much admires the place and air, And longs to be a canon there ; In summer round the Park to ride, In winter — never to reside. A canon ! — that's a place too mean : No, doctor, you shall be a dean ; Two dozen canons round your...
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Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].

Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 pages
...down to Windsor takes his guest. Swift much admires the place and air, And longs to be a canon there, In summer round the Park to ride, In winter — never to reside. " A canon ! — that's a place too mean ; No, Doctor, you shall be a dean ; Two dozen canons round...
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The Works, Volume 12

Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 498 pages
...down to Windsor takes his guest. Swift much admires the place and air, And longs to be a canon there ; In summer round the Park to ride, In winter — never to reside. A canon ! — that's a place too mean : No, doctor, you shall be a dean ; Two dozen canons round your...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters ..., Volume 12

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 498 pages
...down to Windsor takes his guest. Swift much admires the place and air, And longs to be a canon there ; In summer round the Park to ride, In winter — never to reside. A canon ! — that's a place too mean : No, doctor, you shall be a dean ; Two dozen canons round your...
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The Tale of a Tub and Other Works

Jonathan Swift - 1889 - 460 pages
...down to Windsor takes his guest. Swift much admires the place and air, And longs to be a Canon there ; In summer round the park to ride, In winter — never to reside. " A Canon ! that's a place too mean ; No, Doctor, you shall be a Dean ; Two dozen Canons round your...
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The Public School Speaker

Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...Windsor take his guest. Swift much admires the place and air, And longs to be a Canon there; 5° 70 80 In summer round the park to ride, In winter never to reside. ' A Canon ! that's a place too mean ; No, Doctor, you shall be a Dean ; Two dozen Canons round your...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 5

William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 pages
...down to Windsor takes his guest. Swift much admires the place and air, And longs to be a canon there ; In summer round the park to ride ; In winter never to reside. " A canon \ that's a place too mean No, Doctor, you shall be a dean ; Two dozen canons round your stall,...
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Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth

Greg Harkin - 2001 - 340 pages
...stall at Windsor that Swift fancied: 5 1 much admires the Place and Air, And longs to be a Canon there; In Summer round the Park to ride, In Winter — never to reside. (Poems 1:173) Bolingbroke told Swift that he had turned down a very good living for him without even...
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