The Cambridge History of English Literature: From Steele and Addison to Pope and SwiftSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1912 - English literature |
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... SWIFT By GEORGE ATHERTON AITKEN , M.V.O. Swift's parentage and descent . Residences with Sir William Temple . Esther Johnson ( Stella ) . The Phalaris Controversy . Swift Vicar of Laracor . Swift in London . Association with Addison and ...
... SWIFT By GEORGE ATHERTON AITKEN , M.V.O. Swift's parentage and descent . Residences with Sir William Temple . Esther Johnson ( Stella ) . The Phalaris Controversy . Swift Vicar of Laracor . Swift in London . Association with Addison and ...
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... Swift and Defoe . Locke's Thoughts on Education and Essay concerning Human Understanding . Influence of the Essay on subsequent Educational Theory . Education of Girls : Swift , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and others . Elementary ...
... Swift and Defoe . Locke's Thoughts on Education and Essay concerning Human Understanding . Influence of the Essay on subsequent Educational Theory . Education of Girls : Swift , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and others . Elementary ...
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... Swift's famous pamphlet , as being the best known type of intellectual detective and watchman . Soon , coffeehouses began to make their influence felt , and , as he gradually marked out as his province the intimate world of conduct and ...
... Swift's famous pamphlet , as being the best known type of intellectual detective and watchman . Soon , coffeehouses began to make their influence felt , and , as he gradually marked out as his province the intimate world of conduct and ...
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... Swift , revived the classical myth , taking Plato and Ovid for his chief models . These visions and dreams point very commonplace morals , but they astonish by their boldness of fancy and compel belief by their realism of detail2 ...
... Swift , revived the classical myth , taking Plato and Ovid for his chief models . These visions and dreams point very commonplace morals , but they astonish by their boldness of fancy and compel belief by their realism of detail2 ...
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... Swift , Gay , Parnell and others had been in the habit of meeting at Arbuthnot's rooms in St James's palace . Nights with these gatherings had closed Harley's toilsome days . A literary scheme with which this informal club dallied was a ...
... Swift , Gay , Parnell and others had been in the habit of meeting at Arbuthnot's rooms in St James's palace . Nights with these gatherings had closed Harley's toilsome days . A literary scheme with which this informal club dallied was a ...
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Page 285 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Page 85 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Page 302 - ... the nearer we search into human nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.
Page 172 - Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings...
Page 123 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Page 102 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Page 103 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Page 313 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Page 120 - STELLA this day is thirty-four, (We sha'n't dispute a year or more :) However, Stella, be not troubled, Although thy size and years are doubled Since first I saw thee at sixteen, The brightest virgin on the green ; So little is thy form declined ; Made up so largely in thy mind.