Selections from the British Satirists: With an Introductory Essay by Cecil HeadlamF. E. Robinson, 1897 - 329 sivua |
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... Swift , ' said Dryden , ' you will never be a poet'a verdict which gained him the dislike of that furious and gifted man . The prophecy was correct . But the verses of so striking and original a genius could not be dull or insignificant ...
... Swift , ' said Dryden , ' you will never be a poet'a verdict which gained him the dislike of that furious and gifted man . The prophecy was correct . But the verses of so striking and original a genius could not be dull or insignificant ...
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... Swift a bishopric . Twenty years later , when , like some world - weary Timon , embittered by the fall of his party and the failure of his own ambitions , he had commenced Irishman for ever , ' he produced ' Gulliver's Travels , ' in ...
... Swift a bishopric . Twenty years later , when , like some world - weary Timon , embittered by the fall of his party and the failure of his own ambitions , he had commenced Irishman for ever , ' he produced ' Gulliver's Travels , ' in ...
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... Swift , using the point of his pen and not the feather , puts it , that so man becomes more of a Yahoo and less of a Houyhnhnm . The more odious and vile the Yahoo is represented , the more effective therefore is the lesson . The only ...
... Swift , using the point of his pen and not the feather , puts it , that so man becomes more of a Yahoo and less of a Houyhnhnm . The more odious and vile the Yahoo is represented , the more effective therefore is the lesson . The only ...
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