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One further incident which occurred at the time of his first sojourn among his friends in England must be men- tioned - Stella's illness and the anguish which it caused Swift . In a letter of 7 July he mentioned that Stella had not been ...
One further incident which occurred at the time of his first sojourn among his friends in England must be men- tioned - Stella's illness and the anguish which it caused Swift . In a letter of 7 July he mentioned that Stella had not been ...
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the personal verses of which we have not yet spoken , by all odds the most interesting are those addressed to Stella , and to them we shall confine ourselves . It was Swift's habit , beginning in 1719 , to celebrate Stella's birthday ...
the personal verses of which we have not yet spoken , by all odds the most interesting are those addressed to Stella , and to them we shall confine ourselves . It was Swift's habit , beginning in 1719 , to celebrate Stella's birthday ...
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During the final weeks of 1727 he was awaiting Stella's death , in what mood can be seen from a letter of consolation which he wrote to a woman who had just lost her daughter : ' Self - love , as it is the motive to all our actions ...
During the final weeks of 1727 he was awaiting Stella's death , in what mood can be seen from a letter of consolation which he wrote to a woman who had just lost her daughter : ' Self - love , as it is the motive to all our actions ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a | 49 |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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