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" Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. "
The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His Poetical ... - Page 196
by Jonathan Swift - 1823
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A tale of a tub. The battle of the books [and essays

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...said poet: and so of the rest. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. ATI RE is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover every body's face, but their...the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But if it should happen otherwise, the...
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The Works, Volume 3

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...and so of the rest. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass *, wherein beholdefft •Jo generally discover every body's face, but their own ; which is the chief reason for that kind rereption it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with -it. But if it should...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 2

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 500 pages
...poet : and so of the rest. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass *, wherein beholders do generally discover every body's face, but their own ; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But if it should...
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Liber facetiarum, being a collection of curious and interesting anecdotes

Liber - Anecdotes - 1809 - 372 pages
...every body's face but their own ; which is their chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. Swift tana, v, l,p. 142. THE remarks of Fuller, in his Worthies of England, relative to Spenser, Jonson,...
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A Tale of a Tub,: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which ...

Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1811 - 390 pages
.... /J ' • .- • ;'•-?- n / PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass, wherein "beholders do generally discover every body's face but their...the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But if it should happen otherwise, the...
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A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which ...

Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - English literature - 1812 - 250 pages
...so of the rest* i 2 (202) THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass,* wherein beholders do generally discover every body's face but their...the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But if it should happen otherwise, the...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...

Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 380 pages
...poet -. and so of the rest. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIBE is a sort of glass,* wherein beholders do generally discover every body's face but their own ; which is the chief reason for that;kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But if it...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. Polite ...

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 442 pages
...poet : and so of the rest. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover every body's face but their...the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But if it should happen otherwise, the...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. Polite ...

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...poet : and so of the rest. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover every body's face but their...the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But if it should happen otherwise, the...
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The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters ..., Volume 10

Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 458 pages
...PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own ; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happen otherwise, the...
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