The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftSmith, 1965 - 400 pages |
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... mind a hitherto vague ideal that of taste , a possession of the cultivated few , to be defended against all the conspiring forces of malice and ignorance . Soon he was writing verse : the Ode to the Hon . Sir William Temple , the Ode to ...
... mind a hitherto vague ideal that of taste , a possession of the cultivated few , to be defended against all the conspiring forces of malice and ignorance . Soon he was writing verse : the Ode to the Hon . Sir William Temple , the Ode to ...
Page 159
... minds us that the strength of Swift's mind lay not in subtlety or originality but in its firm grasp upon generalities . Had he chosen to work in the French manner , only La Bruyère could he have approached . If there is almost nothing ...
... minds us that the strength of Swift's mind lay not in subtlety or originality but in its firm grasp upon generalities . Had he chosen to work in the French manner , only La Bruyère could he have approached . If there is almost nothing ...
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... mind that sustained him and kept despair at bay . To Bolingbroke he wrote in 1729 : ' I never wake without finding life a more insignificant thing than it was the day before . . . But my greatest misery is recollecting the scene of ...
... mind that sustained him and kept despair at bay . To Bolingbroke he wrote in 1729 : ' I never wake without finding life a more insignificant thing than it was the day before . . . But my greatest misery is recollecting the scene 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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