Word: swift
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Black gave a lecture on Swift last evening that was the most entertaining lecture he has yet delivered here. He began by saying that Swift was a striking example of those geniuses whom our ancestors worshipped indiscriminately and from whom we have distracted ruthlessly...
Lecture. Dean Swift. Mr. E. Charlton Black. Sever...
Lecture. Dean Swift. Mr. E. Charlton Black. Sever...
...Dean Swift...
...translation is far from an exact one; in fact a friend remarked to him that he had produced a very good poem but he must not call it Homer's. The translation was, however, very successful, and with his fortune he bought the estate at Twickenham, called by Swift, "Pope's Villa...