The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftSmith, 1965 - 400 pages |
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... duchess of Somerset , identified with the moderate whigs - the queen would distribute the ballast evenly . Harley was glad enough , but his party raged , seeing in the duchess's presence at court a betrayal of their interests by the ...
... duchess of Somerset , identified with the moderate whigs - the queen would distribute the ballast evenly . Harley was glad enough , but his party raged , seeing in the duchess's presence at court a betrayal of their interests by the ...
Page 188
... duchess of Somerset , and no one believed this more implicitly than Swift . He took up Arbuthnot's quotation , the ' hearts of kings are unsearchable , ' and with each new day fulminated more terribly against the Somer- sets , until he ...
... duchess of Somerset , and no one believed this more implicitly than Swift . He took up Arbuthnot's quotation , the ' hearts of kings are unsearchable , ' and with each new day fulminated more terribly against the Somer- sets , until he ...
Page 192
... duchess of Somerset , and the queen are all named as inimical to his preferment in England . One surmises that his authorship of A Tale of a Tub , his libel upon the duchess of Somerset , and his venomous partisanship , which from 1710 ...
... duchess of Somerset , and the queen are all named as inimical to his preferment in England . One surmises that his authorship of A Tale of a Tub , his libel upon the duchess of Somerset , and his venomous partisanship , which from 1710 ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
N The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
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