Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... letter ; a much graver kind of irresponsibility than merely to amuse the world . In the same letter he writes to Pope of his mock project for a treatise ' proving the falsity of that Definition animal rationale ; and to show that it ...
... letter ; a much graver kind of irresponsibility than merely to amuse the world . In the same letter he writes to Pope of his mock project for a treatise ' proving the falsity of that Definition animal rationale ; and to show that it ...
Page 118
... letters , To the whole People of Ireland , and in this latter he makes clear something which has been implicit in all ... letter which forced Carteret , the new Lord Lieutenant , to issue a Pro- clamation , offering three hundred pounds ...
... letters , To the whole People of Ireland , and in this latter he makes clear something which has been implicit in all ... letter which forced Carteret , the new Lord Lieutenant , to issue a Pro- clamation , offering three hundred pounds ...
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... letter , doubly interesting , is that it is as it were , retro- flex ; it is , in part at least , satire upon the ethical presumption of the satirist . I have quoted elsewhere from Swift's joyful letter to Ford : ' I have finished my ...
... letter , doubly interesting , is that it is as it were , retro- flex ; it is , in part at least , satire upon the ethical presumption of the satirist . I have quoted elsewhere from Swift's joyful letter to Ford : ' I have finished my ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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