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After admonishing his children to look to his will for the wearing and management of the coats , and always to live in harmony together under one roof , the father dies . In a short time the three sons come up to town , where , despite ...
After admonishing his children to look to his will for the wearing and management of the coats , and always to live in harmony together under one roof , the father dies . In a short time the three sons come up to town , where , despite ...
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So clowns on scholars as on wizards look , And take a folio for a conj'ring book . Swift had the sin of wit , no venial crime ; Nay , ' twas affirm'd , he sometimes dealt in rhyme ; Humour and mirth had place in all he writ ...
So clowns on scholars as on wizards look , And take a folio for a conj'ring book . Swift had the sin of wit , no venial crime ; Nay , ' twas affirm'd , he sometimes dealt in rhyme ; Humour and mirth had place in all he writ ...
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Unlike the majority of the great satirists , Swift did not look upon woman as a flagitious and inferior being ; properly , she was man's equal , contemptible only when she assumed the conventionally feminine rôle and laid reason aside ...
Unlike the majority of the great satirists , Swift did not look upon woman as a flagitious and inferior being ; properly , she was man's equal , contemptible only when she assumed the conventionally feminine rôle and laid reason aside ...
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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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