Dustin Giffin.


Dustin Giffin. Patriotism and rhyme in Eighteenth-Century Britain. recent York: Cambridge University Press. 2002 Pp X 316 $6000 ISBN 0-521-81118-X

Toward the close of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver considers that his "duty as a make submissive of England" requires him to report to the guidance the existence of the places he has visited, "because, whatever lands a bring under rule has discovered belong to the Crown" He immediately step quicklys through a number of contrary justifications for not doing this, like as that these conquests would be easy unless useless, or else difficult



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