Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 34
... continued to find experimental science a destructive and irrelevant force right until the end of his career - the most obvious reference is to the Academy of Lagado in the third book of Gulliver's Travels - and this passage suggests ...
... continued to find experimental science a destructive and irrelevant force right until the end of his career - the most obvious reference is to the Academy of Lagado in the third book of Gulliver's Travels - and this passage suggests ...
Page 60
... continued presence of the past ) . So the squabble about the superiority or inferiority of one age's writers to another's looks faintly absurd . But , as in many other hotly debated arguments , there is an inner contention which is ...
... continued presence of the past ) . So the squabble about the superiority or inferiority of one age's writers to another's looks faintly absurd . But , as in many other hotly debated arguments , there is an inner contention which is ...
Page 100
... continued the process of colonization , importing large numbers of Scottish presbyterians into Ulster , dispossessing landlords and persecuting the Catholic priest- hood . A Catholic rebellion in Ireland in 1641 helped to precipitate ...
... continued the process of colonization , importing large numbers of Scottish presbyterians into Ulster , dispossessing landlords and persecuting the Catholic priest- hood . A Catholic rebellion in Ireland in 1641 helped to precipitate ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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