The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 47
... compositions which date from Swift's last year at Moor Park . Dryden's prophecy - ' You will never be a poet'- was to prove false in time , we have already said . ( In order to avoid controversy this statement should perhaps be modified ...
... compositions which date from Swift's last year at Moor Park . Dryden's prophecy - ' You will never be a poet'- was to prove false in time , we have already said . ( In order to avoid controversy this statement should perhaps be modified ...
Page 163
... composition , Swift's compliance with the Addisonian canons yielded verse for which there can be only praise . The lines ... compositions dating from this period is On Mrs. Biddy Floyd , in which Lady Betty The Germain's companion - Lady ...
... composition , Swift's compliance with the Addisonian canons yielded verse for which there can be only praise . The lines ... compositions dating from this period is On Mrs. Biddy Floyd , in which Lady Betty The Germain's companion - Lady ...
Page 275
... compositions with a show of great reluctance and only after a friend has been hired to raise a prolonged and insistent clamour for their appearance in print . In his closing paragraphs the author weaves a new thread of irony into his ...
... compositions with a show of great reluctance and only after a friend has been hired to raise a prolonged and insistent clamour for their appearance in print . In his closing paragraphs the author weaves a new thread of irony into his ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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