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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 maturer Years . ' But there is nothing in it contrary to religion and morality ; the satire ...
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 maturer Years . ' But there is nothing in it contrary to religion and morality ; the satire ...
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He was constantly pleading the fear of gossip , writing on one occasion as follows : This morning a woman who does business for me told me ... the earliest to be assigned to 1719-1720 , the last written by Swift on 7 and 8 August 1722.
He was constantly pleading the fear of gossip , writing on one occasion as follows : This morning a woman who does business for me told me ... the earliest to be assigned to 1719-1720 , the last written by Swift on 7 and 8 August 1722.
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In his verses To Mr. Pope while he was writing the Dunciad the dean demanded that his own part in the composition of that ... maintaining that unless he had been deaf and unfit for conversation Pope would not have written a line .
In his verses To Mr. Pope while he was writing the Dunciad the dean demanded that his own part in the composition of that ... maintaining that unless he had been deaf and unfit for conversation Pope would not have written a line .
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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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