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 vii
... P. 325 APPENDIX D Letters between SWIFT and TOOKE P. 343 APPENDIX E Notes on Treatises wrote by the same Author P. 345 APPENDIX F Notes on SWIFT's Dark Authors P. 347 INTRODUCTION . I. PUBLICATION . A Tale of a Tub Contents . vii.
... P. 325 APPENDIX D Letters between SWIFT and TOOKE P. 343 APPENDIX E Notes on Treatises wrote by the same Author P. 345 APPENDIX F Notes on SWIFT's Dark Authors P. 347 INTRODUCTION . I. PUBLICATION . A Tale of a Tub Contents . vii.
Page ix
... letter to Tooke of June 29 , 1710,3 we learn that there were three copies of the manuscript of the Tale , —a ' blotted ' or corrected copy which the author had by him , a copy which he had lent to a person since dead ' and which came to ...
... letter to Tooke of June 29 , 1710,3 we learn that there were three copies of the manuscript of the Tale , —a ' blotted ' or corrected copy which the author had by him , a copy which he had lent to a person since dead ' and which came to ...
Page x
... Letter to the October Club it was a transcript in another hand that he sent to the press , in order that he might not be known for author ' . A similar course was followed with Gulliver's Travels , I p . 21 ; cf. P. 8 . 2 P. 17 . 3 PP ...
... Letter to the October Club it was a transcript in another hand that he sent to the press , in order that he might not be known for author ' . A similar course was followed with Gulliver's Travels , I p . 21 ; cf. P. 8 . 2 P. 17 . 3 PP ...
Page xi
... Letters show that he helped Swift on occasion in matters of business . He was a man ' for whose honesty ' , said Swift , ' I will engage ' . The publishing and bookselling connexion , the trust and the familiarity that began with ...
... Letters show that he helped Swift on occasion in matters of business . He was a man ' for whose honesty ' , said Swift , ' I will engage ' . The publishing and bookselling connexion , the trust and the familiarity that began with ...
Page xii
... letter of Dr. Charles Davenant , dated See the quotation from Wot- ton's Observations , 1705 , given below ; also p . 297. Deane Swift in his Essay upon Jonathan Swift , 1755 , p . 60 , says that ' every section of the Tale was revised ...
... letter of Dr. Charles Davenant , dated See the quotation from Wot- ton's Observations , 1705 , given below ; also p . 297. Deane Swift in his Essay upon Jonathan Swift , 1755 , p . 60 , says that ' every section of the Tale was revised ...
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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.