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Page 64
... not the Business of Flesh and Blood ; it must by the necessary Course of Things , in a little Time , let go its Hold , and fall into Matter . Lovers , for the sake of Celestial Converse , are but an- other sort of Platonicks ...
... not the Business of Flesh and Blood ; it must by the necessary Course of Things , in a little Time , let go its Hold , and fall into Matter . Lovers , for the sake of Celestial Converse , are but an- other sort of Platonicks ...
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divide every Beauty of Matter or of Style from the Corrup- tion that Apes it . . . 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 ...
divide every Beauty of Matter or of Style from the Corrup- tion that Apes it . . . 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 ...
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In any event , how- ever , it must have remained inferior to A Tale of a Tub , for its matter could not give rise to that intellectually rigor- ous form and meaning which make Swift's early satire an incomparably brilliant achievement .
In any event , how- ever , it must have remained inferior to A Tale of a Tub , for its matter could not give rise to that intellectually rigor- ous form and meaning which make Swift's early satire an incomparably brilliant achievement .
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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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