The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftMethuen, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page 128
... close connexion with this which centred in the relations of church and state : the problem of the nature and source of authority in the state , and the problem of religious tol- eration . Of these three problems the Elizabethans were by ...
... close connexion with this which centred in the relations of church and state : the problem of the nature and source of authority in the state , and the problem of religious tol- eration . Of these three problems the Elizabethans were by ...
Page 280
... close , The lovely nymph had lost her nose . Your virtues safely I commend ; They on no accidents depend : Let malice look with all her eyes , She dares not say the poet lies . Whatever else went into that series of nauseating composi ...
... close , The lovely nymph had lost her nose . Your virtues safely I commend ; They on no accidents depend : Let malice look with all her eyes , She dares not say the poet lies . Whatever else went into that series of nauseating composi ...
Page 331
... close of his seventy - first year ( 1738 ) his energy , it is clear , had been broken down , but not until 1742 was he declared of unsound mind . Nothing is farther from the truth than the idea commonly entertained regard- ing Swift's ...
... close of his seventy - first year ( 1738 ) his energy , it is clear , had been broken down , but not until 1742 was he declared of unsound mind . Nothing is farther from the truth than the idea commonly entertained regard- ing Swift's ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
YEARS OF ACTIVITY AND SUSPENSE | 101 |
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