Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... mind and of the art of Jonathan Swift . And the particular quality of his prose that we have been considering as something both distinctive and remarkable - its conciseness - is also an essential mark of his mind and his art . That ...
... mind and of the art of Jonathan Swift . And the particular quality of his prose that we have been considering as something both distinctive and remarkable - its conciseness - is also an essential mark of his mind and his art . That ...
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... Mind the Pleasure he took in his first reading such an Author . Such Copyings as these give that kind of double Delight which we perceive when we look upon the Children of a beautiful Couple ; where the Eye is not more charm'd with the ...
... Mind the Pleasure he took in his first reading such an Author . Such Copyings as these give that kind of double Delight which we perceive when we look upon the Children of a beautiful Couple ; where the Eye is not more charm'd with the ...
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... mind enlarg'd ? Langhorne certainly left the world with his mind enlarged . For a time , at least , another of his wishes was fulfilled : To find some virtue trac'd on life's short page , Some mark of service paid to human kind , Alone ...
... mind enlarg'd ? Langhorne certainly left the world with his mind enlarged . For a time , at least , another of his wishes was fulfilled : To find some virtue trac'd on life's short page , Some mark of service paid to human kind , Alone ...
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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