 | Deane W. Curtin, Lisa M. Heldke - 1992 - 412 σελίδες
...Quality and Fortune, through the Kingdom, always advising the Mother to let them Suck plentifully in the last Month, so as to render them Plump, and Fat...Day, especially in Winter. I have reckoned upon a medium, that a Child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar Year, if tolerably nursed, encreaseth... | |
 | Philip Roth - 1992 - 316 σελίδες
...to many who shared his concern for Ireland's misery. Imagine how this went down in polite society: "A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment...good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter." Now that's considered Literature. It's called "Swiftian." Back in 1729 it probably seemed, to a lot... | |
 | Simon Marginson - 1993 - 308 σελίδες
...quality and fortune, through the kingdom; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. Whereas the maintenance of an hundred thousand children, from two years old, and upwards, cannot be... | |
 | Dustin H. Griffin - 1994 - 260 σελίδες
...Swift's great eating satire, A Modest Proposal? Think of the lip-smacking delight in culinary details: "the fore or hind Quarter will make a reasonable Dish;...Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day." Think of the way Swift metaphorically displays his dish early: "a young healthy Child, well nursed,... | |
 | Evelyn B. Pluhar - 1995 - 396 σελίδες
...old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled . . . when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter...good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter." 72 One wonders how many of Swift's readers thought he had made an excellent proposal. Perhaps the numbers... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 σελίδες
...Quality and Fortune, through the Kingdom; always advising the Mother to let them suck plentifully in the last Month, so as to render them plump, and fat...Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for 45 Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will make a reasonable Dish;... | |
 | Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin - 1996 - 272 σελίδες
...practice cannibalism will laugh heartily (or nervously) at being informed by the Modest Proposer that "A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment...good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter" (504). The Modest Proposer does not know all this from his own experience. Like his readers, he himself... | |
 | Andre Breton - 1997 - 384 σελίδες
...quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat...day, especially in winter. I have reckoned upon a medium, that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year if tolerably nursed increaseth... | |
 | Caroline Postelle Clotfelter - 1996 - 356 σελίδες
...quality and fortune through the kingdom; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat...a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled. . . . I have reckoned, upon a medium, that a child just born will weigh twelve pounds, and in a solar... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 σελίδες
...baked or boiled; and make no doubt, that it will equally serve in a Fricasie, or Ragoust." They will be "plump and fat for a good Table. A Child will make...good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter." One of Swift's most devastating techniques of word order is the final twist or insinuation with which... | |
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A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish... 
