The Choice Works Of Dean Swift, In Prose And Verse - Couverture souple

Swift, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0548712972 ISBN 13 : 9780548712979

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2007

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Respecting the place of his birth, the events of his college career, his residence withS ir William Temple,his relations with two beautiful and accomplished women, the sincerity of his political and religious creed, and of his warmest personal friendships, charges and imputations have beenwpreferred against him by successive biographers, critics, and gossip-mongers, as baseless and unfounded as they are at variance with each other. The ill-dis guised contempt of Johnson, the more rancorous hatred of Jeffrey, and, later on, the brilliant but misplaced sarcasm and invective ofT hackeray, have so far disguised for us the features of one of the noblest Englishmen of the last two centuries, that they have become scarcely recognizable. The honest, if somewhat quaint, narrative of his life by Thomas Sheridan, the son of one of Swift smost cherished and talented personal friends, may therefore shorn of a little of its garrulity be reverted to with advantage, as in the main a trustworthy version of that touching and romantic story of the struggles, sorrows, and disappointments of genius. After all, however, the best commentary onS wift slife are his own letters and journals and occasional poems and indeed, more or less, the whole body of his writings. Whoever can read these honestly and in their integrity, and can doubt the tenderness, the piety, the sincerity, A bridged from the original Life byS heridan, with revisions and additions.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0548712972
• ISBN 13: 9780548712979
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 776
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