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Page 309
If this is the case , it was only as he proceeded with the story that he perceived the satiric effect to be gained by a different treatment of the Lilliputians , who are shown in all their pettiness , involved in political jealousies ...
If this is the case , it was only as he proceeded with the story that he perceived the satiric effect to be gained by a different treatment of the Lilliputians , who are shown in all their pettiness , involved in political jealousies ...
Page 312
In tone , however , A Voyage to Brobdingnag owes little to part 1 : though many of its effects are again the result of a lively ingenuity , we are conveyed into an incongruous world rather than an entertaining one , while the satire is ...
In tone , however , A Voyage to Brobdingnag owes little to part 1 : though many of its effects are again the result of a lively ingenuity , we are conveyed into an incongruous world rather than an entertaining one , while the satire is ...
Page 326
Such , however , is the effect of part IV upon most readers that the impression of the book as a whole which they carry away is really only the impression left by A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms , and this is evidence , not of artistic ...
Such , however , is the effect of part IV upon most readers that the impression of the book as a whole which they carry away is really only the impression left by A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms , and this is evidence , not of artistic ...
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 398 pages |
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