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Thus later 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 ...
Thus later 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 ...
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Thus in § III the subject of the digression is modern 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 ...
Thus in § III the subject of the digression is modern 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 ...
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But the True 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 ...
But the True 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 ...
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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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