The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 47
... compositions which date from Swift's last year at Moor Park . Dryden's prophecy - ' You will never be a poet'- was to prove false in time , we have already said . ( In order to avoid controversy this statement should perhaps be modified ...
... compositions which date from Swift's last year at Moor Park . Dryden's prophecy - ' You will never be a poet'- was to prove false in time , we have already said . ( In order to avoid controversy this statement should perhaps be modified ...
Page 275
... compositions with a show of great reluctance and only after a friend has been hired to raise a prolonged and insistent clamour for their appearance in print . In his closing paragraphs the author weaves a new thread of irony into his ...
... compositions with a show of great reluctance and only after a friend has been hired to raise a prolonged and insistent clamour for their appearance in print . In his closing paragraphs the author weaves a new thread of irony into his ...
Page 276
... compositions of public interest , personal verses , and literary pieces . The four metrical compositions of public interest of which we shall speak were all occasioned by events in England . Of these the earliest , attributed to Swift ...
... compositions of public interest , personal verses , and literary pieces . The four metrical compositions of public interest of which we shall speak were all occasioned by events in England . Of these the earliest , attributed to Swift ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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