Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... thought to examine what truth or reason there is in it . From the time of Locke onwards the concept of Wit acquired more and more the air of rakishness and irrespon- sibility ( though in truth it had never entirely lacked this ...
... thought to examine what truth or reason there is in it . From the time of Locke onwards the concept of Wit acquired more and more the air of rakishness and irrespon- sibility ( though in truth it had never entirely lacked this ...
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... thought in such a way anyway , but this is sometimes an illusion : by clarifying , sharpening and exaggerating the alternatives the satirist commonly persuades us to shift our angle of vision , even though he may wish us to believe that ...
... thought in such a way anyway , but this is sometimes an illusion : by clarifying , sharpening and exaggerating the alternatives the satirist commonly persuades us to shift our angle of vision , even though he may wish us to believe that ...
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... Thought and Literature from Bacon to Pope ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1951 ) A. O. LOVEJOY , Essays in the History of Ideas ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press , 1948 ) HENRY LYONS , The Royal Society , 1660-1940 : A History ...
... Thought and Literature from Bacon to Pope ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1951 ) A. O. LOVEJOY , Essays in the History of Ideas ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press , 1948 ) HENRY LYONS , The Royal Society , 1660-1940 : A History ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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