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give expression to much that was foremost in the minds of the time . It is consequently worth the effort to estimate with some precision their effect on the secretary who edited many of them . But our conclusion embraces another and a ...
give expression to much that was foremost in the minds of the time . It is consequently worth the effort to estimate with some precision their effect on the secretary who edited many of them . But our conclusion embraces another and a ...
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Conditions may be now favourable and again inimical to its full expression , but by the laws of the universe the high level has been fixed by an unalterable bench - mark . The time sense of one like Swift gave to past , present , and ...
Conditions may be now favourable and again inimical to its full expression , but by the laws of the universe the high level has been fixed by an unalterable bench - mark . The time sense of one like Swift gave to past , present , and ...
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The Beasts ' Confession to the Priest , cited elsewhere as a forcible and unadorned statement of le mythe animal and the theme of Pride , is excellent as intellectual presenta- tion but as artistic expression it suffers from too close ...
The Beasts ' Confession to the Priest , cited elsewhere as a forcible and unadorned statement of le mythe animal and the theme of Pride , is excellent as intellectual presenta- tion but as artistic expression it suffers from too close ...
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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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