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SAMUEL JOHNSON, after applying to Swift the stylistic criteria of simplicity and purity that Swift himself had recommended as standards of good writing (Proposal for Correcting . . . the English Tongue, PW 4:15; The Tatler #230, PW 2:117), makes the following judgment: "This easy and safe conveyance of meaning it was Swift's desire to attain, and for having attained it he deserves praise, though perhaps not the highest praise."
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Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, Gulliver's Travels, English Tongue, The Battel of the Books, Esther Johnson, Polite Conversation, Esther Vanhomrigh, William Wood, Goddess Criticism, Sir William Temple, The Dying Speech, Young Gentleman, Isaac Bickerstaff, Rebecca Dingley, Sacramental Test, Samuel Johnson, Several Letters, Swift's Irish, Royal Society, Simon Wagstaff, The Apology, Tritical Essay, Athenian Society, Digression Concerning Madness
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