Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 32
... effect ( grandly mock - heroic , with all its solemn reference to Jupiter Capitolinus and the Aegyptian Cercopithecus ) comes from a concealed reminiscence of the Golden Calf which the Israelites worshipped in their journey across the ...
... effect ( grandly mock - heroic , with all its solemn reference to Jupiter Capitolinus and the Aegyptian Cercopithecus ) comes from a concealed reminiscence of the Golden Calf which the Israelites worshipped in their journey across the ...
Page 71
... effect is simply madness . From the supernatural he moves to the next obvious contrast , the natural , and from thence to his real interest , the artificial : The second , is the immediate Act of the Devil , and is termed Possession ...
... effect is simply madness . From the supernatural he moves to the next obvious contrast , the natural , and from thence to his real interest , the artificial : The second , is the immediate Act of the Devil , and is termed Possession ...
Page 72
... Effect of Artifice and Mechanick Operation , has been sparingly handled . . . Divine , diabolic , human , mechanical ; the progression marks out what seemed to Swift and his fellow critics of modern learning the direction in which all ...
... Effect of Artifice and Mechanick Operation , has been sparingly handled . . . Divine , diabolic , human , mechanical ; the progression marks out what seemed to Swift and his fellow critics of modern learning the direction in which all ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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