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As a political thinker Swift was in no sense original , his sole contribution being the intellectual energy with which he took up contemporary theory , extended its applications , and gave it a statement irresistibly forcible because of ...
As a political thinker Swift was in no sense original , his sole contribution being the intellectual energy with which he took up contemporary theory , extended its applications , and gave it a statement irresistibly forcible because of ...
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It can be said that his early political convictions were never entirely broken down , and , as we shall see , they were in later years to hold his tory enthusiasm in check . When as the agent of Oxford and Bolingbroke he was raising ...
It can be said that his early political convictions were never entirely broken down , and , as we shall see , they were in later years to hold his tory enthusiasm in check . When as the agent of Oxford and Bolingbroke he was raising ...
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Of the four parts of Gulliver's Travels , only part I can conceivably be called charming It is apparent that from chapter iii on , one of Swift's pur- poses was to pack his narrative with sly allusions to the English political scene.1 ...
Of the four parts of Gulliver's Travels , only part I can conceivably be called charming It is apparent that from chapter iii on , one of Swift's pur- poses was to pack his narrative with sly allusions to the English political scene.1 ...
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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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