The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1953 - 400 pages |
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... passed . Yet since there is a noontide and a night in all our lives , these men ' may fall at last to interest , folly , and abuse . ' In the closing stanza the satirist foretells the ruin that will mark the final , triumphant progress ...
... passed . Yet since there is a noontide and a night in all our lives , these men ' may fall at last to interest , folly , and abuse . ' In the closing stanza the satirist foretells the ruin that will mark the final , triumphant progress ...
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... passing his days since his last return to Ireland , and established him once more close to the heart of English political ... passed he had not only been snared by the tories , but had been set up by them as their factotum in charge of ...
... passing his days since his last return to Ireland , and established him once more close to the heart of English political ... passed he had not only been snared by the tories , but had been set up by them as their factotum in charge of ...
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... passed the summer of 1726 and who had conspired with him to shroud the publication of his satire in mystery now kept their ears open , eager to send the author full reports of the judgments of the town . Arbuthnot wrote first , on 8 ...
... passed the summer of 1726 and who had conspired with him to shroud the publication of his satire in mystery now kept their ears open , eager to send the author full reports of the judgments of the town . Arbuthnot wrote first , on 8 ...
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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