Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 65
Page 34
... Swift's2 Essay upon the Life , Writings , and Character , of Dr. Jonathan Swift ( 1755 ) . Letters 2 to 40 came into his hands from Mrs. Whiteway , a cousin of the Dean's , ' who found them accidentally . . . among a parcel of papers ...
... Swift's2 Essay upon the Life , Writings , and Character , of Dr. Jonathan Swift ( 1755 ) . Letters 2 to 40 came into his hands from Mrs. Whiteway , a cousin of the Dean's , ' who found them accidentally . . . among a parcel of papers ...
Page 41
... Swift with : ( 1 ) The invention of words and symbols in place of those written by Swift ; ( 2 ) a com- placent belief that he had taken ' infinite trouble ' with the little language , whereas ' there is no trace of trouble except in ...
... Swift with : ( 1 ) The invention of words and symbols in place of those written by Swift ; ( 2 ) a com- placent belief that he had taken ' infinite trouble ' with the little language , whereas ' there is no trace of trouble except in ...
Page 42
... Swift's debit account . The diminu- tive ' Stellakins ' ( 14 Oct. 1710 ) was certainly not Swift's , for it stands or falls with Stella . ' Sluttikins ' is a doubtful formation ; and ' saucebox ' , which constantly appears in Deane Swift's ...
... Swift's debit account . The diminu- tive ' Stellakins ' ( 14 Oct. 1710 ) was certainly not Swift's , for it stands or falls with Stella . ' Sluttikins ' is a doubtful formation ; and ' saucebox ' , which constantly appears in Deane Swift's ...
Contents
THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT HERBERT DAVIS Smith College | 33 |
THE INSPIRATION OF POPES POETRY JOHN BUTT Bedford | 65 |
WHERE ONCE STOOD THEIR PLAIN HOMELY DWELL | 80 |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Addison Arnold beauty Boswell Boswell's Burns Burns's character conversation couplet Criticism DAVID NICHOL DAVID NICHOL SMITH Deane Swift Dearest doubt Dunciad Edinburgh edition eighteenth century Elegy English Epistle Essay expression Fanny Burney genius give Gray Hawkesworth heroic couplet History painting Horace Walpole Ibid imagination imitation interest James Boswell Johnson Jonathan Swift journal kind Knox Lady landscape Langhorne later letters lines literary literature little language Lord Lucy Porter Madam manner manuscript matter memory Milton mind moral nature never notes once original Oxford passages perhaps piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Pope Pope's printed prose published quoted reader remarkable Review romantic satire Scott seems sense sermon Shakespeare social songs Spence Stella style taste Tatler things Thomas Gray Thomas Hearne Thomson thought Thrale tion translation verse Walpole words Wordsworth writing written wrote young