Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... English ad- venturers , and thus creating a new Protestant aristocracy . The early Stuarts continued the process of colonization , importing large numbers of Scottish presbyterians into Ulster , dispossessing landlords and persecuting ...
... English ad- venturers , and thus creating a new Protestant aristocracy . The early Stuarts continued the process of colonization , importing large numbers of Scottish presbyterians into Ulster , dispossessing landlords and persecuting ...
Page 101
... English nor Scottish . Even the English protested against this , and once again , in 1700 , land was repossessed by the Government and sold to the highest bidder . The new masters of Ireland found no security in their dominance ; they ...
... English nor Scottish . Even the English protested against this , and once again , in 1700 , land was repossessed by the Government and sold to the highest bidder . The new masters of Ireland found no security in their dominance ; they ...
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... English Literature of the Eighteenth Century ( New York : Russell and Russell , 1962 ) M. H. NICOLSON , The Microscope and the English Imagination ( Northampton , Mass : Smith College , 1935 ) M. H. NICOLSON , Newton Demands the Muse ...
... English Literature of the Eighteenth Century ( New York : Russell and Russell , 1962 ) M. H. NICOLSON , The Microscope and the English Imagination ( Northampton , Mass : Smith College , 1935 ) M. H. NICOLSON , Newton Demands the Muse ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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