"... If to owe nothing to other men is to be original, a more original man than Swift never lived; but, with the wonderful subtlety of thought so rarely joined to the same robustness of intellect which placed his wit and philosophy on the level of Rabelais, he had the same habit as the great Frenchman of turning things inside out, and putting away decencies as if they were shows or hypocrisies. In both it led to an insufferable coarseness."
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John Forster (biographer)
(2 April 1812 – 2 February 1876) was an English biographer, essayist, historian, literary and drama critic, and newspaper editor. Forster, a close friend of Charles Dickens, is mainly remembered for his 3-volume, Dickens biography, published by from 1872 to 1874.
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