A Tale of a Tub: To which is Added The Battle of the Books, and the Mechanical Operation of the SpiritClarendon Press, 1920 - 370 pages |
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Page xvi
... give explanations , many of which are worthless . We do not know if he contributed to this piece , nor even if it had his approval . That he was incapable of writing any part of the Tale is shown by the one publication to which he put ...
... give explanations , many of which are worthless . We do not know if he contributed to this piece , nor even if it had his approval . That he was incapable of writing any part of the Tale is shown by the one publication to which he put ...
Page xxii
... give valu- able help . But there are still many things to be explained ; and this is as Swift intended . I Swift recommended a similar device to Pope for The Dunciad . See his letter of July 16 , 1728 ( Correspondence , vol . iv , p ...
... give valu- able help . But there are still many things to be explained ; and this is as Swift intended . I Swift recommended a similar device to Pope for The Dunciad . See his letter of July 16 , 1728 ( Correspondence , vol . iv , p ...
Page xxvi
... gives it several times in his Dictionary as synonymous with a flimflam ' , idle discourse ' , ' a tale of a roasted horse ' . It has this sense as the title of Ben Jonson's comedy . It was the title also of a work entered in the ...
... gives it several times in his Dictionary as synonymous with a flimflam ' , idle discourse ' , ' a tale of a roasted horse ' . It has this sense as the title of Ben Jonson's comedy . It was the title also of a work entered in the ...
Page xxvii
... gives this explanation— ' Cete grandia ad instar montium prope Islandiam ali- quando conspiciuntur , quæ naues euertunt nisi sono tubarum absterreantur , aut missis in mare rotundis & uacuis uasis , quorum lusu delectantur ...
... gives this explanation— ' Cete grandia ad instar montium prope Islandiam ali- quando conspiciuntur , quæ naues euertunt nisi sono tubarum absterreantur , aut missis in mare rotundis & uacuis uasis , quorum lusu delectantur ...
Page xxviii
... give a wrong turn to its meaning . V. THE ALLEGORY OF THE TALE OF A TUB'.2 The allegory of the Tale - the dispute of the three brothers , Peter , Martin , and Jack - has often been said . to have been borrowed . It had certainly been ...
... give a wrong turn to its meaning . V. THE ALLEGORY OF THE TALE OF A TUB'.2 The allegory of the Tale - the dispute of the three brothers , Peter , Martin , and Jack - has often been said . to have been borrowed . It had certainly been ...
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Page 86 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment, found these words : Item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, &c., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Page 228 - So that, in short, the question comes all to this ; whether is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride...
Page 154 - Whether a tincture of malice in our natures makes us fond of furnishing every bright idea with its reverse; or whether reason, reflecting upon the sum of things, can, like the sun, serve only to enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half, by necessity, under shade and darkness...
Page 182 - I leave the world to taste a blessing which we mysterious writers can seldom reach till we have got into our graves, whether it is that fame being a fruit grafted on the body, can hardly grow and much less ripen till the stock is in the earth, or whether she be a bird of prey, and is lured among the rest to pursue after the scent of a...
Page 141 - Thus physicians discover the state of the whole body, by consulting only what comes from behind. Thus men catch knowledge by throwing their wit on the posteriors of a book, as boys do sparrows with flinging salt upon 48 their tails. Thus human life is best understood by the wise man's rule of regarding the end.
Page 225 - For upon the highest corner of a large window there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern way of fortification.
Page 225 - After you had passed several courts you came to the centre, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defence.
Page 133 - Because memory, being an employment of the mind upon things past, is a faculty for which the learned in our illustrious age have no manner of occasion, who deal entirely with invention, and strike all things out of themselves, or at least by collision from each other...
Page xvii - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted.
Page 66 - Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg ; but then lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.