Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 34
... Madness , with its images of flaying the woman and stripping the beau : madness , for Swift , was a trust in outward appearances rather than the inward essence , and scientific discovery was but one example of the growing madness of the ...
... Madness , with its images of flaying the woman and stripping the beau : madness , for Swift , was a trust in outward appearances rather than the inward essence , and scientific discovery was but one example of the growing madness of the ...
Page 41
... madness of Peter with Jack's different kind of madness : the madness of jealousy , spite and hysterical rage . To adapt Bacon's analogy , Peter's is an ant - like madness the insanity of accumulated habit spilling over into pride and ...
... madness of Peter with Jack's different kind of madness : the madness of jealousy , spite and hysterical rage . To adapt Bacon's analogy , Peter's is an ant - like madness the insanity of accumulated habit spilling over into pride and ...
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... madness which dizzies man's imagination and corrupts him with spiritual vertigo . The doctrine of the Roman Catholic ... madness : a particular example of the Modern madness of self - will ; the madness is satirized in another mock ...
... madness which dizzies man's imagination and corrupts him with spiritual vertigo . The doctrine of the Roman Catholic ... madness : a particular example of the Modern madness of self - will ; the madness is satirized in another mock ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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