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Two hours in the morning , ' the flower of the whole day , ' he gives over to poetry , but ordi- narily he requires an entire week for two stanzas of a Pindaric ode , and when all is done he must alter them a hundred times .
Two hours in the morning , ' the flower of the whole day , ' he gives over to poetry , but ordi- narily he requires an entire week for two stanzas of a Pindaric ode , and when all is done he must alter them a hundred times .
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In the present instance the dominant note is often muffled through entire passages by mere rhetorical sound , but sooner or later it is sure to emerge . It is the tone of intense moral indignation . The satiric impulse was in Swift ...
In the present instance the dominant note is often muffled through entire passages by mere rhetorical sound , but sooner or later it is sure to emerge . It is the tone of intense moral indignation . The satiric impulse was in Swift ...
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The whigs ' reaction to this movement was determined by their entire previous history : threatened with a return of a church - state they became increasingly Erastian , extremists like Hoadly describing a state - church in which other ...
The whigs ' reaction to this movement was determined by their entire previous history : threatened with a return of a church - state they became increasingly Erastian , extremists like Hoadly describing a state - church in which other ...
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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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