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... language and force of sentiment . JONATHAN SWIFT was , according to an account said to be written by himself , * the son of Jonathan Swift , an attorney , and was born at Dublin on St. Andrew's day , 1667 : according to his own report ...
... language and force of sentiment . JONATHAN SWIFT was , according to an account said to be written by himself , * the son of Jonathan Swift , an attorney , and was born at Dublin on St. Andrew's day , 1667 : according to his own report ...
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... language ; and of her wit , so loudly vaunted , the smart sayings which Swift himself has collected , afford no splendid specimen . The reader of Swift's " Letter to a Lady on her Marriage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his opi ...
... language ; and of her wit , so loudly vaunted , the smart sayings which Swift himself has collected , afford no splendid specimen . The reader of Swift's " Letter to a Lady on her Marriage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his opi ...
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... language , which rather trickles than flows . His delight was in simplicity . That he has in his works no metaphor as has been said , is not true ; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice . He studied ...
... language , which rather trickles than flows . His delight was in simplicity . That he has in his works no metaphor as has been said , is not true ; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice . He studied ...
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... language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocular- ity ; but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed imperiousness , in which he was ironical only to the resentful , and to the submissive sufficiently ...
... language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocular- ity ; but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed imperiousness , in which he was ironical only to the resentful , and to the submissive sufficiently ...
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... , claimed only twelve . A natural curiosity after the real conduct of so great an undertaking incited me once to inquire of Dr. Warburton , who told me , in his warm language , that he thought the relation given in 48 BROOME .
... , claimed only twelve . A natural curiosity after the real conduct of so great an undertaking incited me once to inquire of Dr. Warburton , who told me , in his warm language , that he thought the relation given in 48 BROOME .
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