Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan SwiftD. Appleton and Company, 1885 - 284 pages |
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Page v
... Prince Posterity The Introduction What is Man but a Micro - coat ? ( Section II . ) A Digression in Praise of Digressions A Digression concerning Madness From a Farther Digression . THE BATTLE of the BookS The Spider and the Bee . The ...
... Prince Posterity The Introduction What is Man but a Micro - coat ? ( Section II . ) A Digression in Praise of Digressions A Digression concerning Madness From a Farther Digression . THE BATTLE of the BookS The Spider and the Bee . The ...
Page xxiii
... Prince Posterity , " com- plaining of the unfairness of his governor , Time , towards the literary productions of the age , is un- surpassed in all Swift's works . The Battle of the Books is represented by the " Apologue of the Spider ...
... Prince Posterity , " com- plaining of the unfairness of his governor , Time , towards the literary productions of the age , is un- surpassed in all Swift's works . The Battle of the Books is represented by the " Apologue of the Spider ...
Page xxvi
... prince as a mark of esteem to reward the endowments of the mind never fails to be returned with praises and gratitude , and loudly celebrated to the world . ” The last twenty - five years of Swift's sane life may be called his Irish ...
... prince as a mark of esteem to reward the endowments of the mind never fails to be returned with praises and gratitude , and loudly celebrated to the world . ” The last twenty - five years of Swift's sane life may be called his Irish ...
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... Prince Posterity , and Sections I. , VII . , and IX . , together with passages from II . and X. , are here selected to represent the work : but there is hardly a line that can well be spared froin Swift's masterpiece . " " THE EPISTLE ...
... Prince Posterity , and Sections I. , VII . , and IX . , together with passages from II . and X. , are here selected to represent the work : but there is hardly a line that can well be spared froin Swift's masterpiece . " " THE EPISTLE ...
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Jonathan Swift Stanley Lane-Poole. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY ΤΟ HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY I SIR , HERE present your highness with the fruits of a very few leisure hours , stolen from the short intervals of a world of business ...
Jonathan Swift Stanley Lane-Poole. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY ΤΟ HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY I SIR , HERE present your highness with the fruits of a very few leisure hours , stolen from the short intervals of a world of business ...
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