Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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... doubt whether it would ever be safe to assume that we could isolate a certain quality of biting humour or of irony , and say , this must be Swift's . For we know that many papers were printed by the booksellers as his on such grounds ...
... doubt whether it would ever be safe to assume that we could isolate a certain quality of biting humour or of irony , and say , this must be Swift's . For we know that many papers were printed by the booksellers as his on such grounds ...
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... doubt as to the authenticity of the Letter . Although it is a witty piece of writing and seems better than we could expect from an imitation , I can find no satisfactory reason to explain why Swift did not reprint it , if it was his ...
... doubt as to the authenticity of the Letter . Although it is a witty piece of writing and seems better than we could expect from an imitation , I can find no satisfactory reason to explain why Swift did not reprint it , if it was his ...
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... doubt . That it was commemorative elegy I think less certain . Upon the nature of commemorative elegy Gray , in a letter written to Walpole in November 1747 , has some interesting comments . ' Nature and sorrow , and tenderness ' , he ...
... doubt . That it was commemorative elegy I think less certain . Upon the nature of commemorative elegy Gray , in a letter written to Walpole in November 1747 , has some interesting comments . ' Nature and sorrow , and tenderness ' , he ...
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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 |
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