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PITHY QUOTE FROM Swift: Correspondence

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The Razors will be a great Treasure to me, for want of good ones I pass one hour in eight and fourty very miserably.

The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Swift to Charles Ford, Aug. 16th 1725

The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Electronic Edition. book cover

The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-379-1

Language: English

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Detail: Jonathan Swift. By Charles Jervas. Oil on canvas, 1709-1710. By permission, National Portrait Gallery, London

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The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift contains the definitive edition of Swift's correspondence from Oxford University Press.


Swift, Jonathan. Correspondence. Edited by Harold Williams. 5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963-65.



. . . it is hard to imagine any other way of examining a collected correspondence. . . . These electronic versions should be accessible to all levels of readers; they are essential for specialists.

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