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Page 20
... words , but did not reflect that an order that was natural at the beginning of the eight- eenth century was most unnatural at the beginning of ours . My attempt to write in the manner of Swift made it impossible for me to achieve the ...
... words , but did not reflect that an order that was natural at the beginning of the eight- eenth century was most unnatural at the beginning of ours . My attempt to write in the manner of Swift made it impossible for me to achieve the ...
Page 28
... words together , join a monstrous long adjective to a monstrous long noun , or between the end of one word and the beginning of an- other have a conjunction of consonants that almost breaks your jaw . These are trivial and obvious ...
... words together , join a monstrous long adjective to a monstrous long noun , or between the end of one word and the beginning of an- other have a conjunction of consonants that almost breaks your jaw . These are trivial and obvious ...
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... words are allowed . This dialogue is eked out with shrugs , waves of the hand and grimaces . In thus yielding to the fashion it seems to me that dramatists have gravely handi- capped themselves . For this slangy , clipped , broken ...
... words are allowed . This dialogue is eked out with shrugs , waves of the hand and grimaces . In thus yielding to the fashion it seems to me that dramatists have gravely handi- capped themselves . For this slangy , clipped , broken ...
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