The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Vol. VI By Jonathan Swift
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How different would it have been had Swift allied his great gift as a writer to such a spirit as breathes in the Sermon on the Mount! But to wish this is perhaps as foolish as to expect dates to grow on thistles.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
[This vol. contains Barrett's Essay; see No. 136, post]. II: 4 pp., 1–484. ... Jonathan Swift, D.D., &c. arranged by Thomas Sheridan, A.M., with notes, historical and critical. A new edition in twenty-four volumes, corrected and revised ...
Accordingly, this work sets out to analyse a selection of Swift’s Irish Tracts, with a view to tracing the evolution within Swift's literary production of his views and attitudes towards the situation of his homeland.