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From The Age of Reason: The 18th Century in Reason and Violence, by Harold Nicolson

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"Seldom in the whole of literature, has hatred assumed such ferocious forms. The tragedy of Jonathan Swift is that he was tortured, not by disappointed ambition only, not only by failure, but also by a sense of guilt."

From Savage Pessimism: Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745