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With those who lack the true taste for eighteenth - century verse , which is perhaps an acquired one , it will be useless to join issue over the merits of Swift's metrical compositions . ) Early in 1698 the palace at White- hall burnt .
With those who lack the true taste for eighteenth - century verse , which is perhaps an acquired one , it will be useless to join issue over the merits of Swift's metrical compositions . ) Early in 1698 the palace at White- hall burnt .
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It is true that Swift the moralist was more than a uniformitarian . He was in addition one who entertained a stringent ethical doctrine the background of which is not the characteristic rationalism of the Enlightenment , and it is this ...
It is true that Swift the moralist was more than a uniformitarian . He was in addition one who entertained a stringent ethical doctrine the background of which is not the characteristic rationalism of the Enlightenment , and it is this ...
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It is true that Swift's age was not squeamish , true that Swift himself never sought to conceal his most repulsive writings , but there is more than frank coarseness to reckon with . Again , it is true that his imagery is calculated to ...
It is true that Swift's age was not squeamish , true that Swift himself never sought to conceal his most repulsive writings , but there is more than frank coarseness to reckon with . Again , it is true that his imagery is calculated to ...
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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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