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In discussing his poetry with Thomas , Swift mentions three pieces , the Ode to the Athenian Society , the Ode to Doctor William Sancroft , and a translation of Virgil . In regard to the first of these , he writes with a show of triumph ...
In discussing his poetry with Thomas , Swift mentions three pieces , the Ode to the Athenian Society , the Ode to Doctor William Sancroft , and a translation of Virgil . In regard to the first of these , he writes with a show of triumph ...
Page 154
It is present clearly enough in The Problem , but here as in all the earlier pieces of the sort there is an admixture of humour ... The third piece composed at Dublin Castle is the delicious Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition .
It is present clearly enough in The Problem , but here as in all the earlier pieces of the sort there is an admixture of humour ... The third piece composed at Dublin Castle is the delicious Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition .
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They are superb pieces , both of them , compounded of the purest Swiftian humour , the secret of which died with the dean of St. Patrick's . 4 WITH a few notable exceptions , the pieces in verse and prose which have been referred to in ...
They are superb pieces , both of them , compounded of the purest Swiftian humour , the secret of which died with the dean of St. Patrick's . 4 WITH a few notable exceptions , the pieces in verse and prose which have been referred to in ...
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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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