Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 82
... human existence , or tend to deny it , by eroding the notions of spirit and mind and will , by tending all the time to seek a mechanical explana- tion of human intellect and feeling . Notice how Swift's rhetoric persuades the reader ...
... human existence , or tend to deny it , by eroding the notions of spirit and mind and will , by tending all the time to seek a mechanical explana- tion of human intellect and feeling . Notice how Swift's rhetoric persuades the reader ...
Page 96
... human weakness . His later ironic personae reflect this sense of human fallibility : the personae of the Tale and the Discourse , though Swift doesn't quite hold them to a consistent tone ( his own voice keeps on breaking through ) are ...
... human weakness . His later ironic personae reflect this sense of human fallibility : the personae of the Tale and the Discourse , though Swift doesn't quite hold them to a consistent tone ( his own voice keeps on breaking through ) are ...
Page 130
... human society , supposing human beings might be persuaded to behave as he would like them to do ; and yet he was not able for long to indulge the daydream without allowing his consciousness of human failure , his fearful and sombre ...
... human society , supposing human beings might be persuaded to behave as he would like them to do ; and yet he was not able for long to indulge the daydream without allowing his consciousness of human failure , his fearful and sombre ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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