The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 154
... pieces of the sort there is an admixture of humour , however coarse , which shows that Swift laughed as he wrote . In later years there was no laughter . The third piece composed at Dublin Castle is the delicious Mrs. Frances Harris's ...
... pieces of the sort there is an admixture of humour , however coarse , which shows that Swift laughed as he wrote . In later years there was no laughter . The third piece composed at Dublin Castle is the delicious Mrs. Frances Harris's ...
Page 242
... piece entitled To Charles Mordaunt , Earl of Peterborough , and several lesser compositions in verse seem to have been the direct outcome of this visit to England , while the pieces entitled On Reading Dr. Young's Satire , 242 JONATHAN ...
... piece entitled To Charles Mordaunt , Earl of Peterborough , and several lesser compositions in verse seem to have been the direct outcome of this visit to England , while the pieces entitled On Reading Dr. Young's Satire , 242 JONATHAN ...
Page 358
... pieces , both of them , compounded of the purest Swiftian humour , the secret of which died with the dean of St. Patrick's . 4 WITH a few notable exceptions , the pieces in verse and prose which have been referred to in the three ...
... pieces , both of them , compounded of the purest Swiftian humour , the secret of which died with the dean of St. Patrick's . 4 WITH a few notable exceptions , the pieces in verse and prose which have been referred to in the three ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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