Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... perhaps out of embarrassment , perhaps out of a frus- trated sense of order , with the beggars for being beggars . Swift is too closely involved in the problems he satirizes to be quite as detached about them as , perhaps , we would ...
... perhaps out of embarrassment , perhaps out of a frus- trated sense of order , with the beggars for being beggars . Swift is too closely involved in the problems he satirizes to be quite as detached about them as , perhaps , we would ...
Page 52
... perhaps it is more easy for us , who have become accustomed to a certain kind of post - Romantic sentiment towards illusion , to take it seriously than it would have been for one of Swift's contemporaries . Swift was a master of ...
... perhaps it is more easy for us , who have become accustomed to a certain kind of post - Romantic sentiment towards illusion , to take it seriously than it would have been for one of Swift's contemporaries . Swift was a master of ...
Page 163
... perhaps we should be when Gulliver begins to be enthusiastic about the magnificent opportunities offered to the immortal Struldbrugs . The fantasy of personal immortality is too strong in most of us to resist the temptation ; very few ...
... perhaps we should be when Gulliver begins to be enthusiastic about the magnificent opportunities offered to the immortal Struldbrugs . The fantasy of personal immortality is too strong in most of us to resist the temptation ; very few ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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