Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... sometimes , in for instance the Dunciad or A Tale of a Tub , the modern reader ( and perhaps many of Swift's contemporaries ) can become so caught up in the bewildering detail of contemporary controversy that he loses sight of the total ...
... sometimes , in for instance the Dunciad or A Tale of a Tub , the modern reader ( and perhaps many of Swift's contemporaries ) can become so caught up in the bewildering detail of contemporary controversy that he loses sight of the total ...
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... sometimes , perhaps , justifiably , for one can still not be entirely sure of his meaning sometimes . Passages like the following are in part responsible for his failure to win a bishopric , and his exile to Ireland : But if no other ...
... sometimes , perhaps , justifiably , for one can still not be entirely sure of his meaning sometimes . Passages like the following are in part responsible for his failure to win a bishopric , and his exile to Ireland : But if no other ...
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... sometimes did silly things , too , sometimes chased wild whims and delusions in the fashionable name of experimental science . Swift , like other reactionaries ( I use the term neutrally , not as an adverse judgement ) picked on the ...
... sometimes did silly things , too , sometimes chased wild whims and delusions in the fashionable name of experimental science . Swift , like other reactionaries ( I use the term neutrally , not as an adverse judgement ) picked on the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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