Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 58
... experience of the latter part of Section VIII and the whole of Section IX , The Digression on Madness , though all the rest of the book is a necessary framework for this central experience . And , in the Conclusion , Swift has one thing ...
... experience of the latter part of Section VIII and the whole of Section IX , The Digression on Madness , though all the rest of the book is a necessary framework for this central experience . And , in the Conclusion , Swift has one thing ...
Page 60
... experience of the present ; how much our present experience depends upon the 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 ...
... experience of the present ; how much our present experience depends upon the 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 ...
Page 84
... experience of the Dissenters is all of a piece with their physi- cal nature , then , since our attitude to the physical has been so distorted , we find their spiritual behaviour repulsive . If on the contrary we are able to look upon ...
... experience of the Dissenters is all of a piece with their physi- cal nature , then , since our attitude to the physical has been so distorted , we find their spiritual behaviour repulsive . If on the contrary we are able to look upon ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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