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Excerpt from William Congreve
The young poet was overwhelmed with eulogies; but it is doubtful whether he was instantly, as Macaulay and Thackeray have stated, given a post of profit in the Civil Service. That in the course of his life he held several such posts 1 is certain; but a coup let of Swift's.
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