SwiftHarvester Press, 1986 - 153 pages |
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Page 30
... doubt testifies unwittingly to his own complicity in its temporising by being unable to offer a clear alternative , things being what they are . Swift's elusiveness in his most ironic texts has two other results as well , for the full ...
... doubt testifies unwittingly to his own complicity in its temporising by being unable to offer a clear alternative , things being what they are . Swift's elusiveness in his most ironic texts has two other results as well , for the full ...
Page 98
... doubt argue from the effects of Swift's work , its successful campaign against William Wood's royal patent , and conclude that the desperation of The Modest Proposal was an eventual failure of hope . Swift's fear of the enemy within ...
... doubt argue from the effects of Swift's work , its successful campaign against William Wood's royal patent , and conclude that the desperation of The Modest Proposal was an eventual failure of hope . Swift's fear of the enemy within ...
Page 121
... doubt which is a result of two realignments that the reader has to assess . First , there is the shock in paragraph 9 that the Projector's economic logic will not scruple to prescribe cannibalism . So carefully and reasonably has he ...
... doubt which is a result of two realignments that the reader has to assess . First , there is the shock in paragraph 9 that the Projector's economic logic will not scruple to prescribe cannibalism . So carefully and reasonably has he ...
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