A Tale of a Tub: To which is Added The Battle of the Books, and the Mechanical Operation of the SpiritClarendon Press, 1920 - 370 pages |
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Page xvi
... give explanations , many of which are worthless . We do not know if he contributed to this piece , nor even if it had his approval . That he was incapable of writing any part of the Tale is shown by the one publication to which he put ...
... give explanations , many of which are worthless . We do not know if he contributed to this piece , nor even if it had his approval . That he was incapable of writing any part of the Tale is shown by the one publication to which he put ...
Page xxii
... give valu- able help . But there are still many things to be explained ; and this is as Swift intended . 1 Swift recommended a similar device to Pope for The Dunciad . See his letter of July 16 , 1728 ( Correspondence , vol . iv , p ...
... give valu- able help . But there are still many things to be explained ; and this is as Swift intended . 1 Swift recommended a similar device to Pope for The Dunciad . See his letter of July 16 , 1728 ( Correspondence , vol . iv , p ...
Page xxvi
... gives it several times in his Dictionary as synonymous with ' a flimflam ' , ' idle discourse ' , ' a tale of a roasted horse ' . It has this sense as the title of Ben Jonson's comedy . It was the title also of a work entered in the ...
... gives it several times in his Dictionary as synonymous with ' a flimflam ' , ' idle discourse ' , ' a tale of a roasted horse ' . It has this sense as the title of Ben Jonson's comedy . It was the title also of a work entered in the ...
Page xxvii
... gives this explanation- ' Cete grandia ad instar montium prope Islandiam ali- quando conspiciuntur , quæ naues euertunt nisi sono tubarum absterreantur , aut ' missis in mare rotundis & uacuis uasis , quorum lusu delectantur ...
... gives this explanation- ' Cete grandia ad instar montium prope Islandiam ali- quando conspiciuntur , quæ naues euertunt nisi sono tubarum absterreantur , aut ' missis in mare rotundis & uacuis uasis , quorum lusu delectantur ...
Page xxviii
... give a wrong turn to its meaning . V. THE ALLEGORY OF THE TALE OF A TUB'.2 The allegory of the Tale - the dispute of the three brothers , Peter , Martin , and Jack - has often been said to have been borrowed . It had certainly been ...
... give a wrong turn to its meaning . V. THE ALLEGORY OF THE TALE OF A TUB'.2 The allegory of the Tale - the dispute of the three brothers , Peter , Martin , and Jack - has often been said to have been borrowed . It had certainly been ...
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Page 80 - As to his body, there can be no dispute; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress. To instance no more: is not religion a cloak; honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt; self-love a surtout; vanity a shirt; and conscience a pair of breeches, which, though a cover for lewdness as well as nastiness, is easily slipt down for the service of both?
Page 232 - ... end; he stormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst. At length, casting his eye upon the bee, and wisely gathering causes from events (for they knew each other by sight) : "A plague split you," said he, "for a giddy son of a whore.
Page 232 - Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects, whom his enemy had slain and devoured. However, he at length valiantly resolved to issue forth and meet his fate. Meanwhile the bee had acquitted himself of his toils, and posted securely at some distance, was employed in cleansing his wings and disengaging them from the ragged remnants of the cobweb. By this time the spider was adventured out ; when beholding the chasms...
Page 68 - Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But then, lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth and pay you with nothing but a worm.
Page 188 - I leave the world to taste a blessing which we mysterious writers can seldom reach till we have got into our graves, whether it is that fame being a fruit grafted on the body, can hardly grow and much less ripen till the stock is in the earth, or whether she be a bird of prey, and is lured among the rest to pursue after the scent of a...
Page 169 - Now, I would gladly be informed, how it is possible to account for such imaginations as these in particular men, without recourse to my phenomenon of vapours, ascending from the lower faculties to overshadow the brain, and there distilling into conceptions, for which the narrowness of our mother-tongue has not yet assigned any other name besides that of madness or phrenzy.
Page 231 - The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts you came to the centre, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defence.
Page xvii - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted.
Page 233 - I am glad," answered the bee, "to hear you grant at least that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice ; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music ; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts, without designing them for the noblest ends.
Page 168 - Let us next examine the great introducers of new schemes in philosophy, and search till we can find from what faculty of the soul the disposition arises in mortal man, of taking it into his head to advance new systems with such an eager zeal, in things agreed on all hands impossible to be known...