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If we desire to insinuate ourselves into Swift's mind , if we desire to view the universe as he viewed it , we must at once discard our own prejudice in favour of progress as the law of history . The outlook typical of his day was ...
If we desire to insinuate ourselves into Swift's mind , if we desire to view the universe as he viewed it , we must at once discard our own prejudice in favour of progress as the law of history . The outlook typical of his day was ...
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His desire to transcend mere party issues is apparent throughout the Sentiments , and gives to it a tone of modera- tion ... He opens with the declaration that he will not believe that either of the parties desires to push matters to ...
His desire to transcend mere party issues is apparent throughout the Sentiments , and gives to it a tone of modera- tion ... He opens with the declaration that he will not believe that either of the parties desires to push matters to ...
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But how many worldly men have achieved such clarity of desire , have learned to look within them- selves with such unfaltering realism , or have exposed them- selves so minutely ? Arrived in London , Swift felt no such thrill of ...
But how many worldly men have achieved such clarity of desire , have learned to look within them- selves with such unfaltering realism , or have exposed them- selves so minutely ? Arrived in London , Swift felt no such thrill of ...
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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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