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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Animals"
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Date: 1704
"For, it is the opinion of choice virtuosi, that the brain is only a crowd of little animals, but with teeth and claws extremely sharp, and therefore cling together in the contexture we behold, like the picture of Hobbes's Leviathan, or like bees in perpendicular swarm upon a tr...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1704
"Others rather believe there is a perpetual game at leap-frog between both, and sometimes the flesh is uppermost, and sometimes the spirit; adding that the former, while it is in the state of a rider, wears huge Rippon spurs, and when it comes to the turn of be...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)