The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page vii
... critics- the Jeffreys and the Thackerays found a Swift mythos ready to hand , waiting only for forcible restatement and amplification . Thackeray exercised all his superb art to paint a portrait which would revolt honest men for all ...
... critics- the Jeffreys and the Thackerays found a Swift mythos ready to hand , waiting only for forcible restatement and amplification . Thackeray exercised all his superb art to paint a portrait which would revolt honest men for all ...
Page 93
... critics , the most notable of whom , by direct descent from Momus and Hybris , are Bentley , Rymer , Wotton , Perrault , and Dennis . By the term critic was anciently understood one who drew up rules ' by observing which , a careful ...
... critics , the most notable of whom , by direct descent from Momus and Hybris , are Bentley , Rymer , Wotton , Perrault , and Dennis . By the term critic was anciently understood one who drew up rules ' by observing which , a careful ...
Page 94
... Critic , who can trace his family back to Momus and thus yields nothing in the antiquity of his origin to the other sorts of critics , finds his proper employment to be ' to travel thro ' this vast World of Writings to pursue and hunt ...
... Critic , who can trace his family back to Momus and thus yields nothing in the antiquity of his origin to the other sorts of critics , finds his proper employment to be ' to travel thro ' this vast World of Writings to pursue and hunt ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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