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The manifold influences of the time all converged to make simplicity the canon of prose style . Here , to a greater extent than in poetry , reason must rule . Eloquence moves the passions , but it is sense that reaches the understanding ...
The manifold influences of the time all converged to make simplicity the canon of prose style . Here , to a greater extent than in poetry , reason must rule . Eloquence moves the passions , but it is sense that reaches the understanding ...
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CHAPTER III OTHER VERSE AND PROSE 1 As the black mood which had descended upon Swift after the queen's death relaxed its numbing grip , the controversial- ist and the artist came to life at one and the same moment , and while the ...
CHAPTER III OTHER VERSE AND PROSE 1 As the black mood which had descended upon Swift after the queen's death relaxed its numbing grip , the controversial- ist and the artist came to life at one and the same moment , and while the ...
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Cf. also R. F. Jones , ' Science and English prose style in the third quarter of the seventeenth century , ' PMLA , XLV ( 1930 ) , 977-1009 : " The attack on pulpit elo- quence in the Restoration : an episode in the development of the ...
Cf. also R. F. Jones , ' Science and English prose style in the third quarter of the seventeenth century , ' PMLA , XLV ( 1930 ) , 977-1009 : " The attack on pulpit elo- quence in the Restoration : an episode in the development of the ...
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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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