The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 23
... expression were in any way owing to rebellion against an oppressive environment and an unsympathetic master is flatly to be denied . It was from Moor Park , as we have seen , that Swift drew his liberal education . If Temple himself was ...
... expression were in any way owing to rebellion against an oppressive environment and an unsympathetic master is flatly to be denied . It was from Moor Park , as we have seen , that Swift drew his liberal education . If Temple himself was ...
Page 56
... expression of the general and unvarying sense of mankind . Conditions may be now favourable and again inimical to its full expression , but by the laws of the universe the high level has been fixed by an unalterable bench - mark . The ...
... expression of the general and unvarying sense of mankind . Conditions may be now favourable and again inimical to its full expression , but by the laws of the universe the high level has been fixed by an unalterable bench - mark . The ...
Page 362
... expression it suffers from too close defini- tion . Yet in The Place of the Damned and The Day of Judgment lies proof that Swift could still match the idea and the emotion in incandescent verse . Many are of the opinion that The Day of ...
... expression it suffers from too close defini- tion . Yet in The Place of the Damned and The Day of Judgment lies proof that Swift could still match the idea and the emotion in incandescent verse . Many are of the opinion that The Day of ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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