Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... follow after triviality , obscurantism and pomposity : we are taught to look with a wondering and sceptical eye upon all that follows . THE DEDICATIONS The first dedication , to Lord John Somers , nicely combines the conventionally ...
... follow after triviality , obscurantism and pomposity : we are taught to look with a wondering and sceptical eye upon all that follows . THE DEDICATIONS The first dedication , to Lord John Somers , nicely combines the conventionally ...
Page 48
... follows the breaking of the great taboos . Like them , the bird , the bird which is , we must remember , the mind expelled from a false paradise of its own , meets death as a consequence of joy and forbidden knowledge . The whole thing ...
... follows the breaking of the great taboos . Like them , the bird , the bird which is , we must remember , the mind expelled from a false paradise of its own , meets death as a consequence of joy and forbidden knowledge . The whole thing ...
Page 146
... follows the battle with the rats . Observe the evasive primness of the euphemisms , and the even more elaborate ... follow me , I hid my self between two Leaves of Sorrel , and there discharged 146 Jonathan Swift : An Introductory Essay.
... follows the battle with the rats . Observe the evasive primness of the euphemisms , and the even more elaborate ... follow me , I hid my self between two Leaves of Sorrel , and there discharged 146 Jonathan Swift : An Introductory Essay.
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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