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 ix
... Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit . The volume was anonymous , and no part of it had hitherto been printed . It is a question how far the author was responsible for the publication of the volume , and for the text as it ...
... Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit . The volume was anonymous , and no part of it had hitherto been printed . It is a question how far the author was responsible for the publication of the volume , and for the text as it ...
Page xviii
... concerning the authorship of the ' Apology ' . The manuscript had been returned in order that Swift might ' finish that business ' ; and there is no reason for sup- posing that it was not printed exactly as it left his hands . A ' The ...
... concerning the authorship of the ' Apology ' . The manuscript had been returned in order that Swift might ' finish that business ' ; and there is no reason for sup- posing that it was not printed exactly as it left his hands . A ' The ...
Page xxxviii
... concerning Mr. Clifford's Human Reason : And Peter's Banter upon Transubstantiation , is taken from It was also suggested in Notes and Queries for November 30 , 1867 ( 3rd Ser . , xii , p . 451 ) that the following passage in Selden's ...
... concerning Mr. Clifford's Human Reason : And Peter's Banter upon Transubstantiation , is taken from It was also suggested in Notes and Queries for November 30 , 1867 ( 3rd Ser . , xii , p . 451 ) that the following passage in Selden's ...
Page xlviii
... Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Perhaps the most striking is the satire on Indexes and Com- mon - place Books , two Lieutenant- Generals in the army of Galimatias : ' l'un se nommoit Index , qui au con- traire des autres ...
... Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Perhaps the most striking is the satire on Indexes and Com- mon - place Books , two Lieutenant- Generals in the army of Galimatias : ' l'un se nommoit Index , qui au con- traire des autres ...
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... concerning Madness ' and the section on the Æolists . The editor of the edition of 1720 had some reason for printing it before the Battle and calling it ' A Fragment of The Tale of a Tub ' . " IX . SWIFT'S READING . Swift liked to think ...
... concerning Madness ' and the section on the Æolists . The editor of the edition of 1720 had some reason for printing it before the Battle and calling it ' A Fragment of The Tale of a Tub ' . " IX . SWIFT'S READING . Swift liked to think ...
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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.