The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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... Character of Sir William Temple , written by his sister , Lady Giffard . It is a vivid portrait , the sharp , certain strokes revealing to the modern eye a seventeenth - century gentleman of spotless character in whom were mingled the ...
... Character of Sir William Temple , written by his sister , Lady Giffard . It is a vivid portrait , the sharp , certain strokes revealing to the modern eye a seventeenth - century gentleman of spotless character in whom were mingled the ...
Page 70
... character in him . ' Swift did not found his whole character in the writer of the famous Maximes ; had he done so we should find the cynic in him overriding the indignant moral- ist . What Swift did take over from La Rochefoucauld was ...
... character in him . ' Swift did not found his whole character in the writer of the famous Maximes ; had he done so we should find the cynic in him overriding the indignant moral- ist . What Swift did take over from La Rochefoucauld was ...
Page 390
... Characters , 68 . Byron , his Vision of Judgment com- pared with Swift's On Poetry - a Rhapsody , 353 . Cadenus and ... Character of Sir Robert Walpole , A , 334 . Chesterfield , Philip , 4th earl of , 241 . Chetwode , Knightley , 230 ...
... Characters , 68 . Byron , his Vision of Judgment com- pared with Swift's On Poetry - a Rhapsody , 353 . Cadenus and ... Character of Sir Robert Walpole , A , 334 . Chesterfield , Philip , 4th earl of , 241 . Chetwode , Knightley , 230 ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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