Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismJames Lowry Clifford Oxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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... written it or not . We may possibly find something that would be enough to turn the scale . I doubt whether it would ever be safe to assume that we could isolate a certain quality of biting humour or of irony , and say , this must be ...
... written it or not . We may possibly find something that would be enough to turn the scale . I doubt whether it would ever be safe to assume that we could isolate a certain quality of biting humour or of irony , and say , this must be ...
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... writing and the plan of it , as an experiment on a doubt- ful piece to see whether it is possible to find negative proof on which we might risk the statement that Swift could not have written it . The framework is the conventional one ...
... writing and the plan of it , as an experiment on a doubt- ful piece to see whether it is possible to find negative proof on which we might risk the statement that Swift could not have written it . The framework is the conventional one ...
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... written for a public in whose consciousness the maxim was firmly implanted , in the expectation that the ironic impact would thus be greater . The terrible irony in the bare maxim , divested of its supporting arguments , was even more ...
... written for a public in whose consciousness the maxim was firmly implanted , in the expectation that the ironic impact would thus be greater . The terrible irony in the bare maxim , divested of its supporting arguments , was even more ...
Inhalt
THE GLOOM OF THE TORY SATIRISTS | 3 |
THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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