Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 96
... writes out of a desperate though mistaken sense of goodwill : the ironic turn is very light indeed in the following : Therefore I repeat , let no Man talk to me of these and the like Expedients ; till he hath , at least , a Glimpse of ...
... writes out of a desperate though mistaken sense of goodwill : the ironic turn is very light indeed in the following : Therefore I repeat , let no Man talk to me of these and the like Expedients ; till he hath , at least , a Glimpse of ...
Page 131
... writes . It is made abundantly clear what makes the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos differ from each other : if the difference doesn't point the way to the real question , then it seems clear that the satire directs us to the things that the ...
... writes . It is made abundantly clear what makes the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos differ from each other : if the difference doesn't point the way to the real question , then it seems clear that the satire directs us to the things that the ...
Page 199
... write as a real Wit and poet should , following the impulse of his own Genius ; the second stage , when this fails , to try and fail again . The third stage , try once more , taking into account all the critics ' comments , and when ...
... write as a real Wit and poet should , following the impulse of his own Genius ; the second stage , when this fails , to try and fail again . The third stage , try once more , taking into account all the critics ' comments , and when ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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