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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... volume which contained also An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library and A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit . The volume was anonymous , and no part of it had hitherto ...
... volume which contained also An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library and A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit . The volume was anonymous , and no part of it had hitherto ...
Page xi
... volume did not appear as the author intended . The publisher was John Nutt . Now Benjamin Tooke had published for Swift the third part of Temple's Miscellanea in 1701 , and it was Tooke with whom Swift corresponded in 1710 about the ...
... volume did not appear as the author intended . The publisher was John Nutt . Now Benjamin Tooke had published for Swift the third part of Temple's Miscellanea in 1701 , and it was Tooke with whom Swift corresponded in 1710 about the ...
Page xv
... volume , then purchased by Dr. Hunter ' , reappears in the catalogue for the sale of Dr. Charles Chauncey's books on April 12-15 , 1790 : ' No. 2408 ] Swift's Tale of a Tub , morocco , with large MS . note . Note in this Book . All that ...
... volume , then purchased by Dr. Hunter ' , reappears in the catalogue for the sale of Dr. Charles Chauncey's books on April 12-15 , 1790 : ' No. 2408 ] Swift's Tale of a Tub , morocco , with large MS . note . Note in this Book . All that ...
Page xvii
... volume appeared late 1 See Scott , Works of Swift , 1824 , vol . i , p . 89. Scott got the story from Theophilus Swift . Perhaps another reference is in the Journal to Stella , October 7 , 1710 : ' They may talk of the you know b what ...
... volume appeared late 1 See Scott , Works of Swift , 1824 , vol . i , p . 89. Scott got the story from Theophilus Swift . Perhaps another reference is in the Journal to Stella , October 7 , 1710 : ' They may talk of the you know b what ...
Page xviii
... Volume ' that he jotted down on the back of a letter addressed to him at Lord Pembroke's in Leicester Fields in October 1708. But he did not proceed with it during his busy winter in London . When it was published it bore the date ...
... Volume ' that he jotted down on the back of a letter addressed to him at Lord Pembroke's in Leicester Fields in October 1708. But he did not proceed with it during his busy winter in London . When it was published it bore the date ...
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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...