The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 35
... Swift wrote his cousin Thomas , whom he had visited at Oxford in the previous year . The greater part of his letter is concerned with his problems as a poet , which Swift discusses with a rather self - conscious air . He envies the ease ...
... Swift wrote his cousin Thomas , whom he had visited at Oxford in the previous year . The greater part of his letter is concerned with his problems as a poet , which Swift discusses with a rather self - conscious air . He envies the ease ...
Page 168
... Swift wrote , ' upon somebody , I know not who , in the Country ; to which can be only returned , that he is absolutely mistaken in all his Conjectures . Now , in dealing with the question of authorship , Wotton had implied that the ...
... Swift wrote , ' upon somebody , I know not who , in the Country ; to which can be only returned , that he is absolutely mistaken in all his Conjectures . Now , in dealing with the question of authorship , Wotton had implied that the ...
Page 290
... Swift wrote to Ford complaining of the bad weather and confessing that instead of writing- he has , he says , almost forgotten how to hold a pen - he has been reading through ' abundance of Trash , ' which we learn from a letter to ...
... Swift wrote to Ford complaining of the bad weather and confessing that instead of writing- he has , he says , almost forgotten how to hold a pen - he has been reading through ' abundance of Trash , ' which we learn from a letter to ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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