The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 47
... true vein , which was occasional verse now complimentary and again satiric , vers de société , and Horatian imitations . With those who lack the true taste for eighteenth - century verse , which is perhaps an acquired one , it will be ...
... true vein , which was occasional verse now complimentary and again satiric , vers de société , and Horatian imitations . With those who lack the true taste for eighteenth - century verse , which is perhaps an acquired one , it will be ...
Page 53
... true that Swift the moralist was more than a uniformitarian . He was in addition one who entertained a stringent ethical doctrine the background of which is not the characteristic rationalism of the Enlightenment , and it is this ...
... true that Swift the moralist was more than a uniformitarian . He was in addition one who entertained a stringent ethical doctrine the background of which is not the characteristic rationalism of the Enlightenment , and it is this ...
Page 154
... true that Swift himself never sought to conceal his most repulsive writings , but there is more than frank coarseness to reckon with . Again , it is true that his imagery is calculated to the last degree to disgust rather than to excite ...
... true that Swift himself never sought to conceal his most repulsive writings , but there is more than frank coarseness to reckon with . Again , it is true that his imagery is calculated to the last degree to disgust rather than to excite ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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