Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 107
... fear of their two opposites , madness and oppression or imprisonment ( whether the imprisonment be physical or metaphorical ) . Madness recurs again and again as a leading metaphor in Swift's work , from A Tale of a Tub to The Legion ...
... fear of their two opposites , madness and oppression or imprisonment ( whether the imprisonment be physical or metaphorical ) . Madness recurs again and again as a leading metaphor in Swift's work , from A Tale of a Tub to The Legion ...
Page 164
... fear of death , is a harmless biological necessity ; it can only make us cautious of danger and avid for life . Swift counters the fear of death with some- thing quite different ; the fear of impotent , painful and weari- some old age ...
... fear of death , is a harmless biological necessity ; it can only make us cautious of danger and avid for life . Swift counters the fear of death with some- thing quite different ; the fear of impotent , painful and weari- some old age ...
Page 180
... fear of death attacked by the fear of age , decrepitude and decay in Luggnagg . In all these incidents the Houyhnhnm virtues have been in control of things ; Swift has shown how very strong their hold is over his imagination . They form ...
... fear of death attacked by the fear of age , decrepitude and decay in Luggnagg . In all these incidents the Houyhnhnm virtues have been in control of things ; Swift has shown how very strong their hold is over his imagination . They form ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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