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" Quakers, who suffer their women to preach and pray. having soared out of his own reach and sight, not well perceiving how near the frontiers of height and depth border upon each other, with the same course and wing, he falls down plum into the lowest... "
The Brighton magazine - Página 171
1822
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Swift: Selections from His Works, Volumen1

Jonathan Swift - 1892 - 500 páginas
...the sectaries in all nations, who did, and do, and 15 ever will, daily gasp and pant after it. And whereas the mind of man, when he gives the spur and...his first flight of fancy commonly transports him 20 to ideas of what is most perfect, finished, and exalted ; till, having soared out of his own reach...
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A Tale of a Tub: To which is Added The Battle of the Books, and the ...

Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 494 páginas
...Receptacle aforesaid, like their Ancestors, the Sibyls.* _AND, whereas the mind of Man, when he gives the I Spur and Bridle to his Thoughts, doth never stop, but naturally sallies out into both extreams of High and Low, of Good and Evil ; His first Flight of Fancy, commonly transports Him to...
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The Skull of Swift: An Extempore Exhumation

Shane Leslie - 1928 - 388 páginas
...lover of women grow sick. NOT did he spare analysis to his own mind, which, given spur and bridle, "doth never stop but naturally sallies out into both extremes of high and low, of good and evil," and passed to the most perfect before falling into the lowest depth, "like one who travels the East...
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Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, Volumen1

Norman O. Brown - 1985 - 396 páginas
...this formation of the ideal, into what we value highest in the human soul." 8Z In Swift's language: 88 Whereas the mind of Man, when he gives the Spur and...doth never stop, but naturally sallies out into both extreams of High and Low, of Good and Evil; His first Flight of Fancy, commonly transports Him to Ideas...
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Be Sober and Reasonable: The Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and ...

Michael Heyd - 1995 - 344 páginas
...is well in line with Casaubon's view of Cartesianism as one example of enthusiasm in general: And, whereas the mind of Man, when he gives the Spur and...doth never stop, but naturally sallies out into both extreams of High and Low, of Good and Evil; His first Flight of Fancy, commonly transports Him to Idea's...
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The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists

James Noggle - 2001 - 288 páginas
...are, define the "natural" state of the mind by its divided relation to authoritative absolutes: AND, whereas the mind of Man, when he gives the Spur and...doth never stop, but naturally sallies out into both extreams of High and Low, of Good and Evil; His first Flight of Fancy, commonly transports Him to Idea's...
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Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840

Jonathan Lamb - 2001 - 368 páginas
...in Carter 1987, 200). It was not a very happy parallel to draw. THE SETTLEMENT OF NEW ZEALAND And, whereas the Mind of Man, when he gives the Spur and...doth never stop, but naturally sallies out into both extreams of High and Low, of Good and Evil; His first Flight of Fancy, commonly transports Him to Idea's...
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Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840

Jonathan Lamb - 2001 - 358 páginas
...parallel to draw. THE SETTLEMENT OF NEW ZEALAND And, whereas the Mind of Man, when he gives the Sput and Bridle to his Thoughts, doth never stop, but naturally sallies out into both extreams of High and Low, of Good and Evil; His first Flight of Fancy, commonly transports Him to Idea's...
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Satire, History, Novel: Narrative Forms, 1665-1815

Frank Palmeri - 2003 - 364 páginas
...speculations strikingly recalls two key passages from the Tale of a Tub. The first is from section 8: [W]hereas the mind of Man, when he gives the spur...into both extremes of high and low, of good and evil, . . . not well perceiving how near the frontiers of height and depth border upon each other; with the...
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Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

Howard D. Weinbrot - 2005 - 412 páginas
...allowed his narrator to analyze the nature of man. Once he spurs and bridles his thoughts he never stops, "but naturally sallies out into both extremes of High and Low, of Good and Evil." He soars beyond "his own Road and Sight," fails to see "how near the Frontiers of Height and Depth...
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