Swift's Tale of a Tub

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A. Hoffmann, 1911 - 54 páginas
 

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Página 43 - SATIRE is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own ; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
Página 31 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Página 19 - Why should any clergyman of our Church be angry to see the follies of fanaticism and superstition exposed, though in the most ridiculous manner, since that is perhaps the most probable way to cure them, or at least to hinder them from farther spreading ? Besides, though it was not intended for their perusal, it rallies nothing but what they preach against.
Página 44 - It was so universal that I observed the dogs in the streets much more contumelious and quarrelsome than usual: and the very night before the bill went up, a committee of Whig and Tory cats had a very warm and loud debate upon the roof of our house.
Página 43 - When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it ; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones. In a...
Página 30 - A complete Key to the Tale of a Tub ; with some account of the Authors, the occasion and design of writing it, and Mr. Wotton's Remarks examined . London, printed for Edmund Curll, &c.
Página 14 - Nut eredible. man of undoubted veracity, whose sister had made some very considerable impressions upon the Doctor's heart in the days of his youth, assured a relation of mine, whom he courted for a wife about eight or nine and forty years ago, that he saw the Tale of a Tub in the handwriting of Dr. Swift, when the Doctor was but nineteen years old ; but what corrections or improvements it might have received before...
Página 28 - Hawkcsworth. proper to be told, and of very little use, being a private fact ; of which the reader would believe as little, or as much, as he thought good.
Página 43 - How is it possible to expect that Mankind will take Advice, when they will not so much as take Warning...
Página 44 - ... much more contumelious and quarrelsome than usual; and the very night before the bill went up, a committee of whig and tory cats, had a very warm and loud debate upon the roof of our house. But why should we wonder at that, when the very ladies are split asunder into high church and low, and out of zeal for religion, have hardly time to say their prayers...

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