The Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 18

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott

ISBN 10: 1527648036 / ISBN 13: 9781527648036

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Print on Demand. This book is a collection of correspondence between Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and other notable figures of their time. The letters provide an intimate glimpse into their personal lives, literary pursuits, and political views. The correspondence is significant for its insights into the social, cultural, and intellectual landscape of 18th-century England and Ireland. The letters shed light on the development of English literature, the rise of satire and wit, and the complex relationship between friendship and rivalry in creative circles. Through the lively exchanges between these brilliant minds, this book offers a captivating exploration of the human condition and the enduring power of the written word. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 18
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1527648036
• ISBN 13: 9781527648036
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
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Excerpt from The Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 18: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published; With Notes, and a Life of the Author

To-morrow we set out for Amesbury, where I pro' pose to follow your advice, of employing myself about some work against next winter. You seemed not to approve of my writing more fables. Those I am now writing, have a prefatory discourse before each of them, by way of epistle, and the morals of them mostly are of the political kind; which makes them run into a greater length, than those I have already published. I have already finished fifteen or sixteen four or five more would make a volume of the same size as the first. Though this is a kind of writing that appears very easy, I find it is the most difficult of any that I ever undertook. After I have invent ed one fable, and finished it,' I despair of finding out another; but I have a moral or two more, which I wish to write upon. I have also a sort of scheme to raise my finances by doing something for the stage with this, and some reading, and a great deal of exer cise, I propose to pass my summer. I am sorry itlipistoi.ary correspondence.

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