Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... positive to hold on to in Swift's most thoroughly questioning moments , and one is tempted to react too hastily in one of two ways : either to condemn Swift for being entirely negative or to search too anxiously for a positive moral ...
... positive to hold on to in Swift's most thoroughly questioning moments , and one is tempted to react too hastily in one of two ways : either to condemn Swift for being entirely negative or to search too anxiously for a positive moral ...
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... positive , practical and immediately purposeful , as are the Drapier's letters . The works in which he comes closest to a positive statement of his faith , like ' The Sentiments of a Church of England Man ' , are deliberately unadven ...
... positive , practical and immediately purposeful , as are the Drapier's letters . The works in which he comes closest to a positive statement of his faith , like ' The Sentiments of a Church of England Man ' , are deliberately unadven ...
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... positive case in a simply positive way . In the opening remarks of the ' Full and True Account of the Battel fought last Friday , & c ' he adopts a tone and a manner which are not precisely his own . A clue to the kind of discourse ...
... positive case in a simply positive way . In the opening remarks of the ' Full and True Account of the Battel fought last Friday , & c ' he adopts a tone and a manner which are not precisely his own . A clue to the kind of discourse ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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