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Description:Excerpt from The Sources of Gulliver's Travels, Vol. 3 Gulliver's Travels were probably composed between 1720 and 1724. Swift had experienced in his political career his greatest disappointment. He had not succeeded in becoming an English bishop and he had received for all his labors and troubles only the deanery of St. Patrick at Dublin. The party of which he was one of the most clever and energetic adherents was no longer in power, since the death of Queen Anne, and his political friends, such as Bolingbroke and Ormond had fled, while Oxford, Wyndham, Prior and others were imprisoned. Swift himself had sought refuge in Ireland from the dangers which threatened him and all the partisans of the Tory ministry. It was during this time of retirement, as is generally held, that he was busied with the composition of Gulliver's Travels; the germ of them, however, is to be found in the travels of Martinus Scriblerus. Swift, while staying in London, had joined a literary association, called the Scriblerus Club, the members of which were his literary friends, Pope, Gay, Arbuthnot, and the statesmen Oxford and St. John. "The final cause of this club," Leslie Stephens, in his biography of Swift, p. 167, tells us, "was supposed to be the composition of a joint-stock satire. We learn from an interesting letter that Pope formed the original design; though Swift thought that Arbuthnot was the only one capable of carrying it out. The scheme was to write the memoirs of an imaginary pedant, who had dabbled with equal wrong-headedness in all kinds of knowledge; and thus recalls Swift's early performances - the Battle of the Books and the Tale of a Tub. Arbuthnot begs Swift to work upon it during his melancholy retirement at Letcombe. Swift had other things to occupy his mind; and upon the dispersion of the party the club fell into abeyance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sources of Gulliver's Travels, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Sources of Gulliver's Travels, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Sources of Gulliver's Travels, Vol. 3 Gulliver's Travels were probably composed between 1720 and 1724. Swift had experienced in his political career his greatest disappointment. He had not succeeded in becoming an English bishop and he had received for all his labors and troubles only the deanery of St. Patrick at Dublin. The party of which he was one of the most clever and energetic adherents was no longer in power, since the death of Queen Anne, and his political friends, such as Bolingbroke and Ormond had fled, while Oxford, Wyndham, Prior and others were imprisoned. Swift himself had sought refuge in Ireland from the dangers which threatened him and all the partisans of the Tory ministry. It was during this time of retirement, as is generally held, that he was busied with the composition of Gulliver's Travels; the germ of them, however, is to be found in the travels of Martinus Scriblerus. Swift, while staying in London, had joined a literary association, called the Scriblerus Club, the members of which were his literary friends, Pope, Gay, Arbuthnot, and the statesmen Oxford and St. John. "The final cause of this club," Leslie Stephens, in his biography of Swift, p. 167, tells us, "was supposed to be the composition of a joint-stock satire. We learn from an interesting letter that Pope formed the original design; though Swift thought that Arbuthnot was the only one capable of carrying it out. The scheme was to write the memoirs of an imaginary pedant, who had dabbled with equal wrong-headedness in all kinds of knowledge; and thus recalls Swift's early performances - the Battle of the Books and the Tale of a Tub. Arbuthnot begs Swift to work upon it during his melancholy retirement at Letcombe. Swift had other things to occupy his mind; and upon the dispersion of the party the club fell into abeyance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sources of Gulliver's Travels, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Sources of Gulliver's Travels, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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