The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 79
... Learning Temple's point of departue is Fontenelle's Poésies pastorales -containing both a Discours sur la nature de l'églogue and the Digression sur les anciens et les modernes- and Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth , in both ...
... Learning Temple's point of departue is Fontenelle's Poésies pastorales -containing both a Discours sur la nature de l'églogue and the Digression sur les anciens et les modernes- and Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth , in both ...
Page 86
... learning and taste . The Battle of the Books was begun ; finished it must have been not long after the appearance in March 1698 of Dr. Bentley's Dis- sertations Examin'd . Now , presumably , Swift returned to his earlier composition ...
... learning and taste . The Battle of the Books was begun ; finished it must have been not long after the appearance in March 1698 of Dr. Bentley's Dis- sertations Examin'd . Now , presumably , Swift returned to his earlier composition ...
Page 90
... learning , the pulpit signifying dis- senting enthusiasm , the ladder and the stage - itinerant the contemptible aspect of modern letters . It is here , muffled beneath the brilliantly crazy orchestration , that the central , double ...
... learning , the pulpit signifying dis- senting enthusiasm , the ladder and the stage - itinerant the contemptible aspect of modern letters . It is here , muffled beneath the brilliantly crazy orchestration , that the central , double ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
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