The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 296
... Voyage de Syam , the Voyage de Maroc , and the Histoire d'Ethiopie . That Swift never lost his early acquired taste for such books is shown by the presence in his own library of the accounts of Purchas , Nieuhof , Le Blanc , Bernier ...
... Voyage de Syam , the Voyage de Maroc , and the Histoire d'Ethiopie . That Swift never lost his early acquired taste for such books is shown by the presence in his own library of the accounts of Purchas , Nieuhof , Le Blanc , Bernier ...
Page 297
... voyage , however , has lent itself equally well to satire of a much higher order , in which man and society have been subjected to philosophic criti- cism . The age of discovery had presented to the European mind the sharp contrast ...
... voyage , however , has lent itself equally well to satire of a much higher order , in which man and society have been subjected to philosophic criti- cism . The age of discovery had presented to the European mind the sharp contrast ...
Page 307
... Voyage to Lilliput , was the work , as we have seen , of two different periods . Chapters i and ii and probably that part of chapter vi wherein Lilliput is treated as a Utopia were written in the early months of 1714 for the Memoirs of ...
... Voyage to Lilliput , was the work , as we have seen , of two different periods . Chapters i and ii and probably that part of chapter vi wherein Lilliput is treated as a Utopia were written in the early months of 1714 for the Memoirs of ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
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