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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... head nor tail . ' To us nowadays the main drift of the book is clear and unmistakable . It is a satire on the abuses in religion , with satires on the abuses in learning introduced by way of digressions . After two centuries of ...
... head nor tail . ' To us nowadays the main drift of the book is clear and unmistakable . It is a satire on the abuses in religion , with satires on the abuses in learning introduced by way of digressions . After two centuries of ...
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... head be empty , he asks , provided the commonplace- book be full ? We may therefore not suspect how assiduous he was in making abstracts of the authors that he read . The real difference between him and the ' judicious collectors ' was ...
... head be empty , he asks , provided the commonplace- book be full ? We may therefore not suspect how assiduous he was in making abstracts of the authors that he read . The real difference between him and the ' judicious collectors ' was ...
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... heads of the most material parts , and afterwards extended them ' as near as I can remember in the Author's own words ' . The authenticity of the ' History of Martin ' is therefore made to depend on the word of an anonymous bookseller ...
... heads of the most material parts , and afterwards extended them ' as near as I can remember in the Author's own words ' . The authenticity of the ' History of Martin ' is therefore made to depend on the word of an anonymous bookseller ...
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... Heads ” , and beginning his sentences with the word ' How ' . The two sections on Martin as he sketched them differ from Swift's work in scale of treatment as well as in manner . Moreover , he had to confess that he was embarassed for ...
... Heads ” , and beginning his sentences with the word ' How ' . The two sections on Martin as he sketched them differ from Swift's work in scale of treatment as well as in manner . Moreover , he had to confess that he was embarassed for ...
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... Head . By the Assist- ance of some Thinking , and much Conversation , he had endeavour'd to Strip himself of as many real Prejudices as he could ; I say real ones , because under the Notion of Pre- judices , he knew to what dangerous ...
... Head . By the Assist- ance of some Thinking , and much Conversation , he had endeavour'd to Strip himself of as many real Prejudices as he could ; I say real ones , because under the Notion of Pre- judices , he knew to what dangerous ...
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Page 169 - But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding, as well as common sense, is kickt out of doors...
Page 40 - ... seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Page 224 - 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, the ruins, and dilapidations...
Page 86 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment found these words ; item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, etc., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Page 184 - 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 224 - ... 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...
Page 223 - 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 163 - ... the very same principle that influences a bully to break the windows of a whore who has jilted him, naturally stirs up a great prince to raise mighty armies, and dream of nothing but sieges, battles, and victories.
Page 78 - Proceed to the particular works of the creation, you will find how curious journeyman Nature has been, to trim up the vegetable beaux; observe how sparkish a periwig adorns the head of a beech, and what a fine doublet of white satin is worn by the birch.