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Page 154
It is present clearly enough in The Problem , but here as in all the earlier pieces of the sort there is an admixture of humour ... The third piece composed at Dublin Castle is the delicious Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition .
It is present clearly enough in The Problem , but here as in all the earlier pieces of the sort there is an admixture of humour ... The third piece composed at Dublin Castle is the delicious Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition .
Page 358
They are superb pieces , both of them , compounded of the purest Swiftian humour , the secret of which died with the dean of St. Patrick's . 4 WITH a few notable exceptions , the pieces in verse and prose which have been referred to in ...
They are superb pieces , both of them , compounded of the purest Swiftian humour , the secret of which died with the dean of St. Patrick's . 4 WITH a few notable exceptions , the pieces in verse and prose which have been referred to in ...
Page 385
71-72 . 11 I mention only about half of the scattered Scriblerian fragments . It is very difficult to tell which of the numerous pieces fathered upon Martinus originated in the days of the Club's activities and which were composed at ...
71-72 . 11 I mention only about half of the scattered Scriblerian fragments . It is very difficult to tell which of the numerous pieces fathered upon Martinus originated in the days of the Club's activities and which were composed at ...
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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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