To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 116
... moralist . When Mandeville departs from irony , as in the Free Thoughts , he becomes a moralist in his own style , a firm advocate of a middle way between extremes of ungovernable power - a pro- ponent of a mixed state and a tolerant ...
... moralist . When Mandeville departs from irony , as in the Free Thoughts , he becomes a moralist in his own style , a firm advocate of a middle way between extremes of ungovernable power - a pro- ponent of a mixed state and a tolerant ...
Page 117
... moralists of the age - men like Pope , Swift , and Bishop Butler , who could see man with equanimity as a compound ... moralist's metaphor requires some suggestion of responsibility . It may be one of a drama , in which each actor must ...
... moralists of the age - men like Pope , Swift , and Bishop Butler , who could see man with equanimity as a compound ... moralist's metaphor requires some suggestion of responsibility . It may be one of a drama , in which each actor must ...
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... moralist may seek to cleanse us of false aspiration by showing that high is really low , so Swift as Christian moralist demands that we make the sanative distinction between high and low and free our sense of obligation from the ...
... moralist may seek to cleanse us of false aspiration by showing that high is really low , so Swift as Christian moralist demands that we make the sanative distinction between high and low and free our sense of obligation from the ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND LIBERTY | 79 |
Copyright | |
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