The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftSmith, 1965 - 400 pages |
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Page 80
... Learning , in which he challenged Temple's disparagements of the moderns , though he made it clear that he was defending modern learning and knowledge , not modern literature , re- garding which he yielded the superiority to antiquity ...
... Learning , in which he challenged Temple's disparagements of the moderns , though he made it clear that he was defending modern learning and knowledge , not modern literature , re- garding which he yielded the superiority to antiquity ...
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 91
... learning . But the triumph of the work is the gradual approach of these groups to one another , until in the later sections - VIII , ix , XI - the enthusiasm of Jack the dissenter and all the forms of madness in the commonwealth of ...
... learning . But the triumph of the work is the gradual approach of these groups to one another , until in the later sections - VIII , ix , XI - the enthusiasm of Jack the dissenter and all the forms of madness in the commonwealth of ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
N The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
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