The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 40
... tone . Unfortunately the bad habits confirmed during a year's desperate struggles with the Pindaric ode still ride him hard : ungainly from start to finish , he is perversely obscure through entire paragraphs ; he hammers his ideas home ...
... tone . Unfortunately the bad habits confirmed during a year's desperate struggles with the Pindaric ode still ride him hard : ungainly from start to finish , he is perversely obscure through entire paragraphs ; he hammers his ideas home ...
Page 45
... tone unheard since the days of Erasmus . His transformation was brought about , however , not by any renunciation of the themes and ideas which he had been striving to develop in the early verse , but by a rich elaboration of these and ...
... tone unheard since the days of Erasmus . His transformation was brought about , however , not by any renunciation of the themes and ideas which he had been striving to develop in the early verse , but by a rich elaboration of these and ...
Page 125
... tone of solicitation ? Perhaps , for hence- forth it was preferment in England that his heart was doubly set upon . But there is no use in dodging the truth that Swift was never averse to using a slightly undignified tone when pushing ...
... tone of solicitation ? Perhaps , for hence- forth it was preferment in England that his heart was doubly set upon . But there is no use in dodging the truth that Swift was never averse to using a slightly undignified tone when pushing ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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