The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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... close of 1688 , the political storm burst over Ireland , and Trinity College , stronghold of Eng- lish and protestant sentiment , was marked for attack . His student days thus unexpectedly terminated by family mis- fortune and political ...
... close of 1688 , the political storm burst over Ireland , and Trinity College , stronghold of Eng- lish and protestant sentiment , was marked for attack . His student days thus unexpectedly terminated by family mis- fortune and political ...
Page 66
... close relation to his æsthetic principles . There was in the seventeenth cen- tury a general revolt against ' enthusiasm . ' 12 In England two treatises , the first appearing in 1655 , the second in the fol- lowing year , laid down the ...
... close relation to his æsthetic principles . There was in the seventeenth cen- tury a general revolt against ' enthusiasm . ' 12 In England two treatises , the first appearing in 1655 , the second in the fol- lowing year , laid down the ...
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... close of his seventy - first year ( 1738 ) his energy , it is clear , had been broken down , but not until 1742 was he declared of unsound mind . Nothing is farther from the truth than the idea commonly entertained regard- ing Swift's ...
... close of his seventy - first year ( 1738 ) his energy , it is clear , had been broken down , but not until 1742 was he declared of unsound mind . Nothing is farther from the truth than the idea commonly entertained regard- ing Swift's ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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