‘A picture presented to all our Senses’: Vision in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Michael Clancy’s Memoirs (1750)

Sir, Some Friend of mine lent me a Comedy, which I am told was written by you: I read it carefully, and with much Pleasure, on Account both of the Characters, and the Moral. I have no Interest with the People of the Play-house, else I should gladly recommend it to them.

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Eighteenth-Century Ireland
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2026-09-11
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https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2026.7
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Literature: history, themes, analysis
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‘A picture presented to all our Senses’: Vision in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Michael Clancy’s Memoirs (1750)

Declan Kavanagh
Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Literature: history, themes, analysis
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‘A picture presented to all our Senses’: Vision in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Michael Clancy’s Memoirs (1750)

Declan Kavanagh
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Abstract

Sir, Some Friend of mine lent me a Comedy, which I am told was written by you: I read it carefully, and with much Pleasure, on Account both of the Characters, and the Moral. I have no Interest with the People of the Play-house, else I should gladly recommend it to them.

Eighteenth-Century IrelandVol. 41
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Literature: history, themes, analysis
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