Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... hand and what is written on the other hand . In his satires Swift usually affects to retire into the background and hand over responsibility to a persona . Many modern writers on Swift , perceiving this , have tended to exaggerate the ...
... hand and what is written on the other hand . In his satires Swift usually affects to retire into the background and hand over responsibility to a persona . Many modern writers on Swift , perceiving this , have tended to exaggerate the ...
Page 60
... hand - to- hand fighting , continue helplessly doing as they are forced to do , without ever recognizing the real nature of the dispute . Swift is scornful enough of the actual dispute : In this Quarrel , whose Rivulets of Ink have been ...
... hand - to- hand fighting , continue helplessly doing as they are forced to do , without ever recognizing the real nature of the dispute . Swift is scornful enough of the actual dispute : In this Quarrel , whose Rivulets of Ink have been ...
Page 101
... hands once again , and his supporters lost their lands to the Orangemen , many of whom were neither Irish , English nor ... hand , he took all . But though all this ensured Protestant dominance , it could not ensure prosperity , even for ...
... hands once again , and his supporters lost their lands to the Orangemen , many of whom were neither Irish , English nor ... hand , he took all . But though all this ensured Protestant dominance , it could not ensure prosperity , even for ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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