Is it fair to call the famous Drapier's Letters patriotism? They are masterpieces of dreadful humour and invective: they are reasoned logically enough too, but the proposition is as monstrous and fabulous as the Lilliputian island. It is not that the grievance is so great, but there is his enemy the assault is wonderful for its activity and terrible rage. It is Samson, with a bone in his hand, rushing on his enemies and felling them: one admires not the cause so much as the strength, the anger, the fury of the champion.
Thackeray upon Swift.
References. XV. 15-19. S. Baring-Gould, Village Preaching for a Year, vol. ii. p. 38. XVI. 3. Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. lii. No. 3009.
Bibliographical Information Nicoll, William Robertson, M.A., L.L.D. "Commentary on Judges 15". Expositor's Dictionary of Text. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/edt/judges-15.html. 1910.
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Judges 15:15
Is it fair to call the famous Drapier's Letters patriotism? They are masterpieces of dreadful humour and invective: they are reasoned logically enough too, but the proposition is as monstrous and fabulous as the Lilliputian island. It is not that the grievance is so great, but there is his enemy the assault is wonderful for its activity and terrible rage. It is Samson, with a bone in his hand, rushing on his enemies and felling them: one admires not the cause so much as the strength, the anger, the fury of the champion.
Thackeray upon Swift.
References. XV. 15-19. S. Baring-Gould, Village Preaching for a Year, vol. ii. p. 38. XVI. 3. Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. lii. No. 3009.