The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1764 |
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Page iii
... fome apology along with it . The greatest part of that book was finished about thirteen years fince , 1696 , which is eight years before it was published . The author was then young , his invention at the height , and his reading fresh ...
... fome apology along with it . The greatest part of that book was finished about thirteen years fince , 1696 , which is eight years before it was published . The author was then young , his invention at the height , and his reading fresh ...
Page iv
... fome men have proceeded . Thus prepared , he thought the numerous and grofs corrup tions in religion and learning might furnish matter for a fatyr , that would be useful and diverting . He refolved to proceed in a man- ner that thould ...
... fome men have proceeded . Thus prepared , he thought the numerous and grofs corrup tions in religion and learning might furnish matter for a fatyr , that would be useful and diverting . He refolved to proceed in a man- ner that thould ...
Page vi
... fome , whom out of respect he forbears to name , he might have been encouraged to an examination of books written by fome of those authors above defcribed , whofe errors , ignorance , dulnefs , and villany he thinks he could have ...
... fome , whom out of respect he forbears to name , he might have been encouraged to an examination of books written by fome of those authors above defcribed , whofe errors , ignorance , dulnefs , and villany he thinks he could have ...
Page vii
... fome of thofe paffages in this difcourfe , which ap- pear mot liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the ftyle and manner of other writers , whom he has a mind to expofe . I fhall produce one ...
... fome of thofe paffages in this difcourfe , which ap- pear mot liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the ftyle and manner of other writers , whom he has a mind to expofe . I fhall produce one ...
Page viii
... fome others . I fhall not name , are here levelled at , who having spent their lives in faction , and apoftacies , and all man- ner of vice , pretended to be fufferers for loy- alty and religion . So Dryden tells us in one of his ...
... fome others . I fhall not name , are here levelled at , who having spent their lives in faction , and apoftacies , and all man- ner of vice , pretended to be fufferers for loy- alty and religion . So Dryden tells us in one of his ...
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