 | Jonathan Swift - 1755 - 514 pages
...that country ^ and in particular the Drapier's Letters, are thrown together in great confujion, and the Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books, and the Fragment, are not included. In the edition which is now offered to the publick, the Tale of a Tub,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 468 pages
...that country, and in particular the Drafter's Letters, -are thrown together in great confufion, arid the Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books, and the Fragment, are not included **. In * See the letter to Symplon, and note, vol. 4. p. 5. 8. 9. ,f- See... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 500 pages
...that country ', and in particular the Drapier's Letters^ are thrown together in great confujion, and the Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books, and the Fragment, are not included. In the edition which is now offered to the publick, the Tale of a Tub,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...volumes, or distinguished from the productions of cotemporary wits, with whom he was known to associate. " The Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books, and the Fragment, were first published toge r her in 1704; and the Apology, and the notes from Worton, were... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1864 - 324 pages
...Literature from the death of Elizabeth to the Restoration. 5. Give as full an account as you can of the " Tale of a Tub," the " Battle of the Books," and the " Drapier's Letters." 6. Write a short biography of Pope. Give an account of his personal relations... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 pages
...volume which at once raised him to the highest place among contemporary prose writers. It contained the ' Tale of a Tub,' the ' Battle of the Books,' and the ' Discourse on the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit,' a singularly powerful satire on hypocritical fanaticism,... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1902 - 312 pages
...volume which at once raised him to the highest place among contemporary prose writers. It contained the Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books, and the Discourse on the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, a singularly powerful satire, in which he returns again... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1913 - 620 pages
...B. xi, pp. 871 ff., and compare Jeremy Taylor's experiences: Gosse, Jeremy Taylor, Chaps, v and VI. and the Dissensions at Athens and Rome, published...the rest of the book. I do not think that Sections n, iv and VI can be separated from Sections vin and XI as work of a much earlier period. IV. THE MECHANICAL... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1916 - 160 pages
...accord The Dunciad is significantly dedicated to Swift. Its themes are closely related to those of The Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books and the Third Book of Gulliver's Travels. Modelled on Dryden's Macflecknoe, but much more ambitious in scope,... | |
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From 1696 to 1699 we may well suppose him to have been occupied with the Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books, and the Discourse. 