Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismJames Lowry Clifford Oxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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... Brobdingnag he looks up the chain and discovers a race of ' superior beings , ' among whom his pride shrivels through the humiliating knowledge of his own physical insignificance . The emphasis here is upon size , the physical ; but it ...
... Brobdingnag he looks up the chain and discovers a race of ' superior beings , ' among whom his pride shrivels through the humiliating knowledge of his own physical insignificance . The emphasis here is upon size , the physical ; but it ...
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... Brobdingnag is a Swiftian Utopia of common good sense and morality ; and Gulliver , conditioned by the corrupt society from which he comes , appears naive , blind , and insensitive to moral values . His account of the history of England ...
... Brobdingnag is a Swiftian Utopia of common good sense and morality ; and Gulliver , conditioned by the corrupt society from which he comes , appears naive , blind , and insensitive to moral values . His account of the history of England ...
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... Brobdingnag . When Gulliver visits the subject land of Balnibarbi , which is of course England , he sees the result of statism . The People in the Streets walked fast , looked wild , their Eyes fixed , and were generally in Rags . We ...
... Brobdingnag . When Gulliver visits the subject land of Balnibarbi , which is of course England , he sees the result of statism . The People in the Streets walked fast , looked wild , their Eyes fixed , and were generally in Rags . We ...
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THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT | 84 |
Urheberrecht | |
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