Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... England at last achieved military control over Ireland ; Elizabeth , a great Queen of England in so very many ways , was a brutal mistress of the Irish ; Lord Mountjoy , her general in Ireland , suppressed the rebellion of Hugh O'Neill ...
... England at last achieved military control over Ireland ; Elizabeth , a great Queen of England in so very many ways , was a brutal mistress of the Irish ; Lord Mountjoy , her general in Ireland , suppressed the rebellion of Hugh O'Neill ...
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... England ; any more than England doth upon Ireland ' . Nor was there any such law ; the Declaratory Act of 1719 had only made Ireland ' subordinate unto and dependent upon the Imperial Crown of Great Britain ' : but everybody knew what ...
... England ; any more than England doth upon Ireland ' . Nor was there any such law ; the Declaratory Act of 1719 had only made Ireland ' subordinate unto and dependent upon the Imperial Crown of Great Britain ' : but everybody knew what ...
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... England under Queen Anne , 3 vols . ( London : Longmans , 1931-4 ) SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ALEXANDRE BELJAME , Men of Letters and the English Public in the Eighteenth Century , 1660-1744 , tr . E. O. Lorimer , ed . Bonamy Dobrée ( London ...
... England under Queen Anne , 3 vols . ( London : Longmans , 1931-4 ) SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ALEXANDRE BELJAME , Men of Letters and the English Public in the Eighteenth Century , 1660-1744 , tr . E. O. Lorimer , ed . Bonamy Dobrée ( London ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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