Selections from the prose writings of Jonathan Swift, with preface and notes by S. Lane-PooleKegan Paul & Company, 1884 - 284 páginas |
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... on occasion , but his mission was to scourge , and like most executioners he grew hardened to his work . It is the too common fate of the schoolmaster . The terrible earnestness of Swift's wrath , the saeva indignatio xvi PREFACE.
... on occasion , but his mission was to scourge , and like most executioners he grew hardened to his work . It is the too common fate of the schoolmaster . The terrible earnestness of Swift's wrath , the saeva indignatio xvi PREFACE.
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... common attributes of Curtius and Empe- docles . In style , and as an artistic whole , the Tale of a Tub is Swift's masterpiece . The satire is more pointed and concise than in Gulliver , the thought more full and vigorous , the ideas ...
... common attributes of Curtius and Empe- docles . In style , and as an artistic whole , the Tale of a Tub is Swift's masterpiece . The satire is more pointed and concise than in Gulliver , the thought more full and vigorous , the ideas ...
Página xxv
... common- place , would write such heavy stuff now . The explanation probably is , as Mr. Leslie Stephen remarks , that Swift's pamphlets were rather blows than words ; he had serious political effects to pro- duce , and what he had to ...
... common- place , would write such heavy stuff now . The explanation probably is , as Mr. Leslie Stephen remarks , that Swift's pamphlets were rather blows than words ; he had serious political effects to pro- duce , and what he had to ...
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... common acceptation , a seat well bolstered and cushioned for the repose of old and gouty limbs : senes ut in otia tuta recedant . Fortune being indebted to them this part of retaliation , that , as formerly they have long talked while ...
... common acceptation , a seat well bolstered and cushioned for the repose of old and gouty limbs : senes ut in otia tuta recedant . Fortune being indebted to them this part of retaliation , that , as formerly they have long talked while ...
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... common reason to find room for it in every part of nature ; reducing , including , and adjusting , every genus and species within that compass , by coupling some against their wills , and banishing others at any rate . Now , among all ...
... common reason to find room for it in every part of nature ; reducing , including , and adjusting , every genus and species within that compass , by coupling some against their wills , and banishing others at any rate . Now , among all ...
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Página 135 - We next went to the School of Languages, where three Professors sat in Consultation upon improving that of their own Country. The first Project was to shorten Discourse by cutting Polysyllables into one, and leaving out Verbs and Participles; because in Reality all things imaginable are but Nouns.
Página 231 - Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass the skin of which artificially dressed will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentlemen. As to our city of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers, we may be assured, will not be wanting; although I rather recommend buying the children alive and dressing them hot from the knife as we do roasting pigs.
Página 232 - Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa, who came from thence to London above twenty years ago, and in conversation told my friend that in his country when any young person happened to be put to death, the executioner sold the carcass to persons of quality as a prime dainty; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of fifteen, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the emperor, was sold to his Imperial Majesty's prime minister of state, and other great mandarins of the court, in joints...
Página 222 - The remedy is wholly in your own hands ; and therefore I have digressed a little, in order to refresh and continue that spirit so seasonably raised among you ; and to let you see, that by the laws of GOD, of NATURE, of NATIONS, and of your COUNTRY, you ARE, and OUGHT to be, as FREE a people as your brethren in England.
Página 229 - ... children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, How this number shall be reared and provided for? which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; we neither build houses (I mean in the country), nor cultivate land...
Página 232 - ... it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty; which, I confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended.
Página 91 - Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage at first was very prosperous. It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the northwest of Van Diemen's Land.
Página 237 - But before something of that kind shall be advanced in contradiction to my scheme and offering a better, I desire the author or authors will be pleased maturely to consider two -points: first, as things now stand, how they will be able to find food and raiment for...
Página 80 - ... to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject. We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?
Página 128 - He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting, " it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.