A Literary History of England: The Restoration and eighteenth century, 1660-1789, by George SherburnAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 - 1673 pages |
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... idea was in England gaining its first momentum . Temple believed in cyclic change but not in progress , and although ... ideas : they may be superficially stated but they are ingratiatingly stated , and they are ideas that have haunted ...
... idea was in England gaining its first momentum . Temple believed in cyclic change but not in progress , and although ... ideas : they may be superficially stated but they are ingratiatingly stated , and they are ideas that have haunted ...
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... idea in the poem is new or peculiar to Pope or to Lord Bolingbroke , who had encouraged and greatly influenced Pope in writing the Essay . The first epistle discusses the relation of man to God , and presents an exposition of the idea ...
... idea in the poem is new or peculiar to Pope or to Lord Bolingbroke , who had encouraged and greatly influenced Pope in writing the Essay . The first epistle discusses the relation of man to God , and presents an exposition of the idea ...
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... idea that a poetic genius should be learned . One may depend on the force of nature as sufficient aid , and may believe in Learning geniuses quite untaught . Joseph Spence and some Wiltshire friends had stimulated these ideas when in ...
... idea that a poetic genius should be learned . One may depend on the force of nature as sufficient aid , and may believe in Learning geniuses quite untaught . Joseph Spence and some Wiltshire friends had stimulated these ideas when in ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 696 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
III The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
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