Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... kind I propose would go far beyond the limits imposed upon this essay . I can give only a sketch . And the sketch will violate strict propriety of method . Though my purpose is in the main descriptive , I shall suggest rather more in ...
... kind I propose would go far beyond the limits imposed upon this essay . I can give only a sketch . And the sketch will violate strict propriety of method . Though my purpose is in the main descriptive , I shall suggest rather more in ...
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... kind to such As needed kindness , for this single cause , That we have all of us one human heart . This beggar is so poor that he can make the poorest rich : com- pared with his their poverty is wealth . Any passer - by that he may meet ...
... kind to such As needed kindness , for this single cause , That we have all of us one human heart . This beggar is so poor that he can make the poorest rich : com- pared with his their poverty is wealth . Any passer - by that he may meet ...
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... kind , though of a severely aesthetic kind . ( If we look at Swift's escritoire , photographed in Elrington Ball's edition of the Correspondence , we see a thing which is eminently useful but also so strikingly perfect in its ...
... kind , though of a severely aesthetic kind . ( If we look at Swift's escritoire , photographed in Elrington Ball's edition of the Correspondence , we see a thing which is eminently useful but also so strikingly perfect in its ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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