The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page 169
... written expressly against it , is approved by the great ma- jority of men of taste . True , it was written while the author was still young , and it is to be granted that he ' gave a Liberty to his Pen , which might not suit with ...
... written expressly against it , is approved by the great ma- jority of men of taste . True , it was written while the author was still young , and it is to be granted that he ' gave a Liberty to his Pen , which might not suit with ...
Page 238
... written by Swift on 7 and 8 August 1722. There is not such another sequence of letters in the English language . The emotions excited in the reader fall into no pattern , for in the scene at which he is allowed to gaze there is no ...
... written by Swift on 7 and 8 August 1722. There is not such another sequence of letters in the English language . The emotions excited in the reader fall into no pattern , for in the scene at which he is allowed to gaze there is no ...
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... writing the Dunciad the dean demanded that his own part in the composition of that masterpiece be duly acknowledged , maintaining that unless he had been deaf and unfit for conversation Pope would not have written a line . So far as ...
... writing the Dunciad the dean demanded that his own part in the composition of that masterpiece be duly acknowledged , maintaining that unless he had been deaf and unfit for conversation Pope would not have written a line . So far as ...
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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