English Satire: An AnthologyNorman Furlong G.G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1947 - 388 pages |
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Page 158
... attitude to mankind is summed up in a letter to Pope : " I heartily hate and detest that animal called man , although I heartily love John , Peter , Thomas , and so forth . " Swift was an arrogant and ambitious man and , for a time ...
... attitude to mankind is summed up in a letter to Pope : " I heartily hate and detest that animal called man , although I heartily love John , Peter , Thomas , and so forth . " Swift was an arrogant and ambitious man and , for a time ...
Page 197
... . Though Addison is less chivalrous than Steele in his attitude to women , both essayists realize the need to raise the position of women in society . PARTY PATCHES Qualis ubi audito venantum murmure Tigris Horruit in 197 JOSEPH ADDISON.
... . Though Addison is less chivalrous than Steele in his attitude to women , both essayists realize the need to raise the position of women in society . PARTY PATCHES Qualis ubi audito venantum murmure Tigris Horruit in 197 JOSEPH ADDISON.
Page 264
... attitudes , affect me , unless there be cause ; after I have been once or twice deceived by those unmeaning alarms , my heart sleeps in peace , probably unaffected by the principal distress . There should be one great passion aimed at ...
... attitudes , affect me , unless there be cause ; after I have been once or twice deceived by those unmeaning alarms , my heart sleeps in peace , probably unaffected by the principal distress . There should be one great passion aimed at ...
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