A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 167
... Swift was born in 1667 at Dublin . His family came from Yorkshire , and he himself was fundamentally English , though he acquired some of the ways and feelings of the Protestant colony in Ireland . He was educated at Kil- kenny School ...
... Swift was born in 1667 at Dublin . His family came from Yorkshire , and he himself was fundamentally English , though he acquired some of the ways and feelings of the Protestant colony in Ireland . He was educated at Kil- kenny School ...
Pagina 169
... Swift's fable of the spider and the bee . The spider , who is the symbol of modern learning , does nothing but spin webs of sophistry from its own entrails , while the bee , who stands for the ancients , ranges far and wide over the ...
... Swift's fable of the spider and the bee . The spider , who is the symbol of modern learning , does nothing but spin webs of sophistry from its own entrails , while the bee , who stands for the ancients , ranges far and wide over the ...
Pagina 170
... Swift wrote a series of pamphlets ( Drapier's Letters , 1724 ) so damaging to the Government that the halfpence were withdrawn . This was one of his greatest practical triumphs , but the literary force of his pro - Irish writings ...
... Swift wrote a series of pamphlets ( Drapier's Letters , 1724 ) so damaging to the Government that the halfpence were withdrawn . This was one of his greatest practical triumphs , but the literary force of his pro - Irish writings ...
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