Word: swift
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best. Dodge supported him well in the first set, but in the last two weakened a little. The playing of Read and Phillips was always steady and occasionally brilliant Read's playing was especially good. The most noteworthy features of the match were Read's smashes and Pier's swift, low balls...
PIERIAN SODALITY. - The following men must be at Robert's Hall at 4.30 this afternoon: Bennett, Morris, Brooks, Bacon, E. V. Frothingham, Lowell, Stark, Swift, Bacon, Smith, Clark, Philbrook, Prescott, Lemke...
...Swift was born poor. He lived as a child in an atmosphere of debt, difficulty, and dependence on bounty. At college, be met only failure and disgrace. It was not till he was settled as the secretary of Sir William Temple, one of the most diplomatic counsellors and elegant scholars of the realm, that Swift found himself in congenial circumstances. Out of the great library, he stocked his mind with the literary and political knowledge that made his after career possible...
Soon after Sir Temple died. Swift had gone to London, and soon appeared as a political writer in favor of the whigs. His wit and force made him formidable so that, when be turned to the town, he was received with open arms. He became the intimate friend of the great ministers, was of the highest consequence in the state, and the patron of all literary...
...Over Swift's private life hangs a most perplexing mystery. Because of this, to defame his character is not just, since honorable motives may at all times explain his actions. He lived a hard life, - a bitter one. His mind from early manhood gave signs of darkening, and finally was clouded entirely. Yet that mind, in its prime, one of the most strikingly original the world has seen and, if not sublime, certainly never commonplace and always possessed of universal strength and untainted sincerity...