Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 47
... whole world . ) However , it is characteristic of Swift that the contemplation of the joys and dangers of the Imagination should raise him to such intensities of energy , while Pope remains comparatively calm about the whole matter ...
... whole world . ) However , it is characteristic of Swift that the contemplation of the joys and dangers of the Imagination should raise him to such intensities of energy , while Pope remains comparatively calm about the whole matter ...
Page 78
... whole Universe is interess'd in his meanest Concern . If he hath got cleanly over a Kennel1 , some Angel , unseen , descended on purpose to help him by the Hand ; if he hath knockt his Head against a Post , it was the Devil , for his ...
... whole Universe is interess'd in his meanest Concern . If he hath got cleanly over a Kennel1 , some Angel , unseen , descended on purpose to help him by the Hand ; if he hath knockt his Head against a Post , it was the Devil , for his ...
Page 181
... whole , to subject the natural affections to as iron a control as was humanly possible . Humanly possible - and this is the key to the whole question of Book IV . Swift allows free rein to a fantasy of Reason . But the fantasy which ...
... whole , to subject the natural affections to as iron a control as was humanly possible . Humanly possible - and this is the key to the whole question of Book IV . Swift allows free rein to a fantasy of Reason . But the fantasy which ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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