The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftMethuen, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page 40
... tone . Unfortunately the bad habits confirmed during a year's desperate struggles with the Pindaric ode still ride him hard : ungainly from start to finish , he is perversely obscure through entire paragraphs ; he hammers his ideas home ...
... tone . Unfortunately the bad habits confirmed during a year's desperate struggles with the Pindaric ode still ride him hard : ungainly from start to finish , he is perversely obscure through entire paragraphs ; he hammers his ideas home ...
Page 45
... tone unheard since the days of Erasmus . His transformation was brought about , however , not by any renunciation of the themes and ideas which he had been striving to develop in the early verse , but by a rich elaboration of these and ...
... tone unheard since the days of Erasmus . His transformation was brought about , however , not by any renunciation of the themes and ideas which he had been striving to develop in the early verse , but by a rich elaboration of these and ...
Page 307
... tone derives from chapters i and ii . These opening pages of the narrative , by giving us a fleeting glimpse of a miniature world where everything is perfectly modelled to the scale of one inch to the foot , excite in us a child's ...
... tone derives from chapters i and ii . These opening pages of the narrative , by giving us a fleeting glimpse of a miniature world where everything is perfectly modelled to the scale of one inch to the foot , excite in us a child's ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
YEARS OF ACTIVITY AND SUSPENSE | 101 |
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