Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... Swift's personal future was concerned , the tone of his Tale of a Tub had permanently injured it . An archbishop and the Queen were forever to oppose the prize which , al- ways splendid , at length became symbolic to Swift - a bishopric ...
... Swift's personal future was concerned , the tone of his Tale of a Tub had permanently injured it . An archbishop and the Queen were forever to oppose the prize which , al- ways splendid , at length became symbolic to Swift - a bishopric ...
Sivu 144
... Swift's pride had sillier aspects than most men's vanity . He saw , with terrible lucidity , all the blundering chaos of life and smashed its pretensions to pulp ; yet he was not always emancipated or even cynical enough to free his ...
... Swift's pride had sillier aspects than most men's vanity . He saw , with terrible lucidity , all the blundering chaos of life and smashed its pretensions to pulp ; yet he was not always emancipated or even cynical enough to free his ...
Sivu 147
... Swift must almost certainly have been think- ing of something beyond Stella's reputation : of some weak- ness , some shadowy fatalism , some formal decision long arrived at . The child - fixation occurs to me as at least sugges- tive ...
... Swift must almost certainly have been think- ing of something beyond Stella's reputation : of some weak- ness , some shadowy fatalism , some formal decision long arrived at . The child - fixation occurs to me as at least sugges- tive ...
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