The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page xiii
... prose is quoted from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift , ed . Temple Scott ( 12 vols .; London : George Bell & Sons , Ltd. , 1897-1908 . ' Bohn's Standard Library ' ) .- By arrangement with Messrs . George Bell & Sons , Ltd. 2. Swift's ...
... prose is quoted from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift , ed . Temple Scott ( 12 vols .; London : George Bell & Sons , Ltd. , 1897-1908 . ' Bohn's Standard Library ' ) .- By arrangement with Messrs . George Bell & Sons , Ltd. 2. Swift's ...
Page 67
... 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 ; manifestly it is to the under- standing that the prose writer addresses himself ...
... 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 ; manifestly it is to the under- standing that the prose writer addresses himself ...
Page 384
... prose style , see J. E. Spingarn , ' Intro- duction ' ( IV ) , in his Critical Essays of the seventeenth century . Cf. also R. F. Jones , ' Science and English prose style in the third quarter of the seventeenth century , ' PMLA , XLV ...
... prose style , see J. E. Spingarn , ' Intro- duction ' ( IV ) , in his Critical Essays of the seventeenth century . Cf. also R. F. Jones , ' Science and English prose style in the third quarter of the seventeenth century , ' PMLA , XLV ...
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MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a | 49 |
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