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The Platonic element - the contrast between our world and a realm of perfect Truth - never again appeared in Swift's thought . It was utterly foreign to his mind , and its momentary appearance in the ode is evidence of an odd sort that ...
The Platonic element - the contrast between our world and a realm of perfect Truth - never again appeared in Swift's thought . It was utterly foreign to his mind , and its momentary appearance in the ode is evidence of an odd sort that ...
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On the first day of 1695 Boyle's edition appeared , with a sarcastic reference in the preface to Bentley's remarkable courtesy . Two and a half years thereafter ( June 1697 ) Wotton put forth a second edition of his Reflections ...
On the first day of 1695 Boyle's edition appeared , with a sarcastic reference in the preface to Bentley's remarkable courtesy . Two and a half years thereafter ( June 1697 ) Wotton put forth a second edition of his Reflections ...
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When had there appeared such daring prognostications as these in Predictions for the Year 1708 ? On the fourth of April will die the Cardinal de Noailles , archbishop of Paris ; on the seventh there will be an insurrection in Dauphine ...
When had there appeared such daring prognostications as these in Predictions for the Year 1708 ? On the fourth of April will die the Cardinal de Noailles , archbishop of Paris ; on the seventh there will be an insurrection in Dauphine ...
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 398 pages |
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