The Sin of Wit: Jonathan Swift as a PoetGordian Press, 1966 - 145 páginas |
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... reason for Swift's hatred - a reason bound up in personalities and not in mere versification . It occurred to Orrery that it was not so much a matter of prejudice against the practice itself , as against certain poets : " Mr. Dryden ...
... reason for Swift's hatred - a reason bound up in personalities and not in mere versification . It occurred to Orrery that it was not so much a matter of prejudice against the practice itself , as against certain poets : " Mr. Dryden ...
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... reason , opposing other poets like Young who held to Descartes ' conception of animals as mere automata . In depicting men as crass , unreasoning Ya- hoos and animals as noble Houyhnhnms , Swift turns the whole argument into absurdity ...
... reason , opposing other poets like Young who held to Descartes ' conception of animals as mere automata . In depicting men as crass , unreasoning Ya- hoos and animals as noble Houyhnhnms , Swift turns the whole argument into absurdity ...
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... reason , learning , blind ; You who thro ' frailty step'd aside , And you who never fell - thro ' pride ; You who in different sects have shamm'd , And come to see each other damn'd ; ( So some folks told you , but they knew No more of ...
... reason , learning , blind ; You who thro ' frailty step'd aside , And you who never fell - thro ' pride ; You who in different sects have shamm'd , And come to see each other damn'd ; ( So some folks told you , but they knew No more of ...
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