SwiftHarvester Press, 1986 - 153 pages |
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Page 30
... expectations , they can never quite be re - assembled with habitual certainty . If Swift's remedies were plain and readily accessible , if there were not so many rhetorical trap - doors opening under us , our reading habits would be ...
... expectations , they can never quite be re - assembled with habitual certainty . If Swift's remedies were plain and readily accessible , if there were not so many rhetorical trap - doors opening under us , our reading habits would be ...
Page 84
... expectations are often proved inadequate ( the Struldbruggs , his own confidence in his non- Yahoo nature ) , and his desire to correct his own mental world in line with his travelling is always questioned ( see his returns home ) ...
... expectations are often proved inadequate ( the Struldbruggs , his own confidence in his non- Yahoo nature ) , and his desire to correct his own mental world in line with his travelling is always questioned ( see his returns home ) ...
Page 122
... expectations of human activity - not Irish ones . What is more the catalogue is disproportionately lengthy for one who had earlier seemed to brook no objection or alternative to his scheme . The Projector's negatives seem to be losing ...
... expectations of human activity - not Irish ones . What is more the catalogue is disproportionately lengthy for one who had earlier seemed to brook no objection or alternative to his scheme . The Projector's negatives seem to be losing ...
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