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The first sketch of Gulliver's Travels occurs in the proposed Travels of Martinus Scriblerus, devised in that pleasing society where most of Swift's miscellanies were planned.
Swift's Works (1803), x. 94.
Swift's two greatest satires are his Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels.
Swift's greatest satire, the greatest prose satire in English, is known as A Tale of a Tub.
" Swift's satiric definition of happiness as the art "of being well deceived" is a characteristic instance of a combination of his humor and pessimistic philosophy.
Swift's wit frequently left its imprint on the thought of the time.
Those who like to probe such systems may do sothe only wise conclusion is Swift's, "If you want to confute a lie, tell another in the opposite direction."
And, indeed, to me at all events, the difficulty of Swift's riddle lies, not in his savagery, but in his charm.
You remember, I suppose, Swift's couplet, "Fame has but two gates,a white and a black one; The worst they can say is I got in at the back one.
The real differences between the parties were trifling; not more, to Swift's idea, than that between High-heels and Low-heels in the court of Lilliput; and the controversies between the churches were not greater than those between the Big-endians and the Little-endians.
The contrary effects of Swift's song, "Here we go up, up, up," and the smile-provoking melody of "Hey diddle, diddle," cum multis aliis, are too well known to be enumerated or disputed.
"Swift's Poems, p. 415.
"Swift's Poems, p. 335.
Political controversy under the Regency and the reign of George IV. was thus carried on more regularly by permanent organs, and no longer so largely by privateering, in the shape of pamphlets, like Swift's Public Spirit of the Allies, Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny, and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Mr. Malone traces their consanguinity to Swift's grandmother, Elizabeth Dryden, being the daughter of a brother of Sir Erasmus Driden, the poet's grandfather; so that the Dean of St. Patrick's was the son of Dryden's second cousin, which, in Scotland, would even yet be deemed a near relation.
In the party who, amid such strange surroundings, read and listened to Dean Swift's writings was a young man named Alexander Neely.
Dr. Swift's ancestors were persons of decent and reputable characters.
Swift's greater works are The Battle of the Books, his contribution to the controversy concerning the relative merits of the ancients and the moderns; the Tale of a Tub, in which he attacked the three leading forms of Christianity; and, above all, Gulliver's Travels.
W. E. H. LECKY, M.P. VOL III 1898 SWIFT'S WRITINGS ON RELIGION AND THE CHURCH VOL.
It was originally intended that Swift's writings on Religion and the Church should occupy a single volume of this edition of his works.
But, however much he may have been disappointed at their inaction, it may not be argued, as it has been, that Swift's so-called change in his political opinions was the outcome either of spleen or chagrin against the Whigs for their ingratitude towards him.
Swift's intercourse with the leading men of his day only served to accentuate his consciousness of his superiority; and a party which would permit him the free play of his powers would be the party to which Swift would give his adhesion.
It is the first of four tracts which form Swift's most important expression of his thoughts on Religion and the Church.
" In his letter to John Stearne, Bishop of Clogher, dated July, 1733, which is one of Swift's most characteristic epistlescharacteristic, because the embodiment of truthful candourhe gives no equivocal expression of opinion on these two bills.
If I had even suspected that the idea in question was borrowed,I should have disclaimed originality, or mentioned the coincidence, as I once did in a case where I had happened to hit on an idea of Swift's.