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When he returns to Moor Park it is not to write clumsy verse but to fashion prose satire which speaks to Folly's children in a tone unheard since the days of Erasmus . His transformation was brought about , however , not by any ...
When he returns to Moor Park it is not to write clumsy verse but to fashion prose satire which speaks to Folly's children in a tone unheard since the days of Erasmus . His transformation was brought about , however , not by any ...
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Were it not for his unsuccessful experiments in verse satire , it would be natural to assume that Swift came by the ... And now a final word , not about the very early verses , but about two metrical compositions which date from Swift's ...
Were it not for his unsuccessful experiments in verse satire , it would be natural to assume that Swift came by the ... And now a final word , not about the very early verses , but about two metrical compositions which date from Swift's ...
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122-35 ; and F. Elring- ton Ball , Swift's verse ; an essay ( London , 1929 ) , chap i . 1 Pope to Spence , Spence's Anecdotes , ed . John Underhill ( London , [ n.d. ] ) , p . 87 . - 2 Swift's earliest authentic portrait - the one by ...
122-35 ; and F. Elring- ton Ball , Swift's verse ; an essay ( London , 1929 ) , chap i . 1 Pope to Spence , Spence's Anecdotes , ed . John Underhill ( London , [ n.d. ] ) , p . 87 . - 2 Swift's earliest authentic portrait - the one by ...
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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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