Excerpt from Jonathan Swift: The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, on 26 May 1917 Hen the University of Cambridge honoured me by inviting me to de liver the Leslie Stephen lecture, I thought I was in duty bound to go to the I 8th cen tury for my subject. For Leslie Stephen has made the 18th century his own by right of conquest. Nor was I deterred from choosing to speak of Jonathan Swift by the reflection, that I should take aview of him and his writings, which was not the aview of ...
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Excerpt from Jonathan Swift: The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, on 26 May 1917 Hen the University of Cambridge honoured me by inviting me to de liver the Leslie Stephen lecture, I thought I was in duty bound to go to the I 8th cen tury for my subject. For Leslie Stephen has made the 18th century his own by right of conquest. Nor was I deterred from choosing to speak of Jonathan Swift by the reflection, that I should take aview of him and his writings, which was not the aview of Leslie Stephen, whom this lecture commemorates. If controversy be the athletics of literature, as I think it is, then Leslie Stephen was not of those who would have resented disagreement. For he was an athlete always - ou the run ning path, on the High Alps, and in his study. Thus was I guided in the choice of my subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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