The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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... ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1935 ) . By per- mission of the publishers . All other correspondence of Swift is quoted from - The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift , ed . F. Elrington Ball ( 6 vols .; London : G. Bell & Sons , Ltd ...
... ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1935 ) . By per- mission of the publishers . All other correspondence of Swift is quoted from - The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift , ed . F. Elrington Ball ( 6 vols .; London : G. Bell & Sons , Ltd ...
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... Oxford and Bolingbroke , but at the beginning of June 1714 he gave up hope and retreated to Letcombe in Berk- shire . Here , at intervals during the next two months , letters from London - like messengers in a Greek tragedy - brought ...
... Oxford and Bolingbroke , but at the beginning of June 1714 he gave up hope and retreated to Letcombe in Berk- shire . Here , at intervals during the next two months , letters from London - like messengers in a Greek tragedy - brought ...
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... Oxford's mildness as a grave defect ; but before the great crisis of December 1711 he had come to the conviction that the queen was forcing upon Oxford a policy of moderation the full responsibility for which the lord treasurer was ...
... Oxford's mildness as a grave defect ; but before the great crisis of December 1711 he had come to the conviction that the queen was forcing upon Oxford a policy of moderation the full responsibility for which the lord treasurer was ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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