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| Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 494 pages
...' Whefeof I have been farther convinced from some late Experiments. Last Week I saw a Woman flayd, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her Person for the worse. Yesterday I ordered the Carcass of a Beau to be stript in my Presence ; when we were all amazed to find so many unsuspected... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 506 pages
...been farther convinced from some late Experiments. /Last Week I saw a Woman flayd, and you will hardjy believe, how much it altered her Person for the worse. Yesterday I ordered the Carcass of a Beau to be stript in my Presence ; when we were all amazed to find so many unsuspected... | |
| Henry Woodd Nevinson - English essays - 1921 - 232 pages
...in which all his rage and pity and ironical bareness of style seem foretold: "Last week," he says, "I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse." "Only a woman's hair," was found written on the packet in which the memorial of Stella was preserved,... | |
| John Middleton Murry - Criticism - 1922 - 168 pages
...To attempt to separate the element of style in good writing — well, remember The Tale of a Tub : ' Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly...believe how much it altered her person for the worse.' The fact is that nine times out of ten, when a serious author makes use of the word Style, he is trying,... | |
| Shane Leslie - Biography & Autobiography - 1928 - 384 pages
...human flesh and ironically remarked to show how preferable the outward in all matters was to the inner: "Last week I saw a woman flayed and you will hardly...believe how much it altered her person for the worse!" Almost he sensed a future reader of words wince or some lover of women grow sick. Nor did he spare... | |
| Paul Milton Fulcher - English essays - 1927 - 336 pages
...writing." To attempt to separate the element of style in good writing — well, remember The Tale of a Tub: "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly...believe how much it altered her person for the worse." The fact is that nine times out of ten, when a serious author makes use of the word Style, he is trying,... | |
| Gerald Monsman - Literary Collections - 1984 - 182 pages
...alive an equivalent to Swift's famous utterance in A Tale of a Tub: "Last Week I saw a Woman ftay'd, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her Person for the worse." 7 Whipping pigs to death, softening the soft, increasing the innocence of the innocent, as it were,... | |
| James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 pages
...In: Whereof I have been farther convinced from some late Experiments. Last Week I saw a Woman flay'd, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her Person for the worse." We suddenly have a version of the "curious" side of things, to which we have become committed, that... | |
| Gerald Monsman - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 182 pages
...alive an equivalent to Swifts famous utterance in A Tale of a Tub: "Last Week I saw a Woman flay'd, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her Person for the worse."7 Whipping pigs to death, softening the soft, increasing the innocence of the innocent, as it... | |
| James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 pages
...convinced from some late Experiments. Last Week I saw a Woman flay'd, and you will hardly believe, how 129 much it altered her Person for the worse. Yesterday I ordered the Carcass of a Beau to be stript in my Presence; when we were all amazed to find so many unsuspected... | |
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