...Lore Metzger Michael H. Friedman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xi + 322 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 292 REVIEWS The Making of a Tory Human&: William Wordsworlh and the Idea of Community...

... but for the “knowledgeable” who can appreciate the “promenade parmi les. personnages et les sentiments mis en cause dam cet univers de comMie ” PAULSAINTONCE Mount Holyoke College Jonathan Swift as a Tory Pamphleteer. By RICHARDI. COOK.Seattle...

...Richard I. Cook Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 THE AUDIENCE OF SWIFT’S TORY TRACTS, 1710-14 By RICHARDI. COOK If, as Aristotle puts it, the art of rhetoric lies in “discovering in the particular case what are the available means...

...John Loftis Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 RICHARD STEELE, DRERY LANE. AXD THE TORIES By JOHN LOFTIS When King Charles I1 gave theatrical patents to Thomas KilIigrew and Sir William D’Avenant, he established a precedent which made...

... Specifically, the poem rereads and historicizes georgic in terms of con- temporary Tory politics as regards nationhood, diplomatic alliances, and the roots of legitimacy. This was a lead followed by later poets such as Diaper, Gay, Trapp, and above all Pope. Readers today might expect the nature...

..., Areopagitica, and Eikonoklastes. Again, he came into his own by adaptations and paraphrases of these works. Finally, the opposition to his ideas by royalists or, as they came later to be called, Tories, who conferred on Milton the epithet (see p. 110) which Professor Sensabaugh has used...

... elsewhere, looms large-too large to be seen or felt in itself. Human expressions do not make history, but they do make his- tory human; it is our texts that shape events, turning them, for better and for worse, into the ongoing equipment of our experience. Literature is the writing that makes...

... was not, in his early career, a partisan in poli- tics, but tried to keep on good terms with both Tories and Whigs, to remain “above party.” It was Pope himself who first taught us to believe these things, and modern biographers and critics have on the whole followed him. John Aden’s purpose...

..., why had he not spoken out in 1710 when the Allies sought to upset that balance of power which he had so often declared was necessary to the peace of Europe? Was it not because he was for a time in the pay of Godolphin? From moderate Tory Harley he had gone to Whig Godolphin, but he...

... purposes : ( 1) to study the historical and literary sources of the plays, and especially the development of the interpretation of his- Virgil K. Whitaker 499 tory which they embody; (2) to demonstrate in them the influence of the complex of ideas which he...

... with perverse morality. Byron’s wry observation that “we learn the Angels all are Tories” (st. 26) casts Satan as the leader of the Radical Opposition, a parliamentary role Byron had once half-wished for himself.7 As Michael, the leader of the “Tory” an- gels, is quick to point out later in the poem...

... Tory Anarchy,” ECS, 3 (1969), 61-66; and John I. Fischer, “How to Die: Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift,” RES, n.s.. 21 (1970). 422-41. 246 PETER ,J. SCHAKEL 247 Suffolk and the Queen (179-88), Walpole (189-96), Lintot...

.... Dr. Kahrl calls Akenside, the model for the Physician, “a travel- ing Tory of the old school,” but certainly he was not a Tory like Dr. Johnson. Indeed Johnson declared Akenside to be “no friend of anything established” and mentioned his “envious desire of plunder- ing wealth and degrading...

... on Addison, by C. S. Lewis, turns on a comparison of Addison with his Tory contemporaries- much to the advantage of Addison; but though the reader may be partial to either Tory or Whig, he will find this statement of the issues involved illuminating and stimulating. In a study...

... in the His- tory of Ideas. New Haven : Yale University Studies in English, Vol. 106; London : Geoffrey Cumherlege, Oxford University Press, 1947. Pp. viii + 207. $3.00. Conklin, Paul S. A History of Hanzlct Criticism, 1601-1821. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1947. Pp. viii + 176...

..., the moment of the greatest triumph of rationalist ocularcentrism, was simultaneously another moment of uncertainty over exactly what form of the visual had triumphed and what the consequences of this “vic- tory” would be. Jay is not happy with the coiirse taken by the history of the dis- course...

...: Schocken, His- tory of Literature Series, 1982. xii + 304 pp. $28.50. Bliss, Lee. The World’s Perspective: John Webster and the Jacobean Drama. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1983. x + 246 pp. $20.00. Braswell, Mary Flowers. The Medieval Sinner: Characterization...

...- strued, served the purposes of primitivist and sophisticate, atheist and theologian, classicist and romanticist, Tory and Jacobin, but that a thread of continuity can be traced through the maze of doc- trine. The earlier part of the century was dominated by the scientific synthesis of Galileo...

... ” PAULSAINTONCE Mount Holyoke College Jonathan Swift as a Tory Pamphleteer. By RICHARDI. COOK.Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1967. xxxiv + 157 pp. $6.95; 56s. In this book Richard Cook brings together a number of his studies of Swift’s political writings (1710...

... increasingly available during the first half of the nineteenth century, through public archives, historical societies, and congressional preservation acts, and that “documania,” as David D. Van Tassel calls it, could embarrass the more syncretic, moralizing his- tories of the Revolution so deadly...