A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 170
... satire . Swift's aim , in the first place , was to attack the real world as he knew it , by reducing men and their ways to ridiculous proportions . The Lilliputians , with their pompous ministers of state , their empty honours , and ...
... satire . Swift's aim , in the first place , was to attack the real world as he knew it , by reducing men and their ways to ridiculous proportions . The Lilliputians , with their pompous ministers of state , their empty honours , and ...
Pagina 172
... satire on the crowning offences of mankind against reason . Swift's indictment of law and medicine , though still amusing , has lost some of its force , but the exposure of war is tremendous both in its style and its indignation ...
... satire on the crowning offences of mankind against reason . Swift's indictment of law and medicine , though still amusing , has lost some of its force , but the exposure of war is tremendous both in its style and its indignation ...
Pagina 225
... satire , he is as effective as in pure song . The creature of the earth , the ways and manners of men , move him to pity or derision , and he is never more original than in extracting a grim humour or a tender pathos from Scotch peasant ...
... satire , he is as effective as in pure song . The creature of the earth , the ways and manners of men , move him to pity or derision , and he is never more original than in extracting a grim humour or a tender pathos from Scotch peasant ...
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