The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page vii
... English writer of corresponding stature has been repudiated so persistently and so fiercely by immediately succeeding generations , but this repudiation had in it a strange kind of excitement which was instantly communicated , so that ...
... English writer of corresponding stature has been repudiated so persistently and so fiercely by immediately succeeding generations , but this repudiation had in it a strange kind of excitement which was instantly communicated , so that ...
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... English blood , was making a winter pas- sage across the Irish Sea from Dublin to England . His dark hair and his very blue eyes were in striking contrast . One noticed the eyes particularly ; they were ' quite azure as the heavens ...
... English blood , was making a winter pas- sage across the Irish Sea from Dublin to England . His dark hair and his very blue eyes were in striking contrast . One noticed the eyes particularly ; they were ' quite azure as the heavens ...
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... English and Irish and the reduction of the native population to a state of hopelessness were its greatest evils . Thus , the so - called Protestant Ascendancy , which extended from the time of the Revolution of 1688 down to the end of ...
... English and Irish and the reduction of the native population to a state of hopelessness were its greatest evils . Thus , the so - called Protestant Ascendancy , which extended from the time of the Revolution of 1688 down to the end of ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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