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In this month Swift wrote his lines To Mr. Congreve , in the following month the lines Occasioned by Sir William Temple's late Illness and Recovery . The occasion of the first of these pieces is explained in Swift's letter of 6 December ...
In this month Swift wrote his lines To Mr. Congreve , in the following month the lines Occasioned by Sir William Temple's late Illness and Recovery . The occasion of the first of these pieces is explained in Swift's letter of 6 December ...
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The day he first met Harley - 4 October - Swift took an irrevocable step- he sent to the printer The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod , his lampoon on Godolphin . This he followed up , some two months later ( 8 December ) ...
The day he first met Harley - 4 October - Swift took an irrevocable step- he sent to the printer The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod , his lampoon on Godolphin . This he followed up , some two months later ( 8 December ) ...
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As for Swift himself , his old enemy — ' giddiness ' — now began to overtake him , and a painful illness of another nature laid him up for the better part of two months . And then there was the matter of his preferment .
As for Swift himself , his old enemy — ' giddiness ' — now began to overtake him , and a painful illness of another nature laid him up for the better part of two months . And then there was the matter of his preferment .
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
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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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