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Swift's Prose All quotations from A Tale of a Tub , The Battle of the Books , and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit are from A Tale of a Tub , etc. , ed . A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ...
Swift's Prose All quotations from A Tale of a Tub , The Battle of the Books , and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit are from A Tale of a Tub , etc. , ed . A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ...
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The manifold influences of the time all converged to make simplicity the canon of prose style . Here , to a greater extent than in poetry , reason must rule . Eloquence moves the passions , but it is sense that reaches the understanding ...
The manifold influences of the time all converged to make simplicity the canon of prose style . Here , to a greater extent than in poetry , reason must rule . Eloquence moves the passions , but it is sense that reaches the understanding ...
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CHAPTER III OTHER VERSE AND PROSE 1 As the black mood which had descended upon Swift after the queen's death relaxed its numbing grip , the controversial- ist and the artist came to life at one and the same moment , and while the ...
CHAPTER III OTHER VERSE AND PROSE 1 As the black mood which had descended upon Swift after the queen's death relaxed its numbing grip , the controversial- ist and the artist came to life at one and the same moment , and while the ...
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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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