To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 412
... Energy , like Shaw's Devil's Disciple , accepts the title the “ religious " give him , if only to make the religious see how much they have denied . In seizing upon an order and fixing it , they have devitalized the idea of order and ...
... Energy , like Shaw's Devil's Disciple , accepts the title the “ religious " give him , if only to make the religious see how much they have denied . In seizing upon an order and fixing it , they have devitalized the idea of order and ...
Page 416
... energy in all its forms : " The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction . ” “ The cistern contains ... energy immanent within the temporal world that gives the Proverbs their direction- they are counsels of transcendence ...
... energy in all its forms : " The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction . ” “ The cistern contains ... energy immanent within the temporal world that gives the Proverbs their direction- they are counsels of transcendence ...
Page 423
... Energy , Love and Hate , are necessary to Human existence . " Yet as soon as the idea of rational order appears , it is reduced to " the cunning of weak and tame minds which have the power to resist energy . " As pruning fosters the ...
... Energy , Love and Hate , are necessary to Human existence . " Yet as soon as the idea of rational order appears , it is reduced to " the cunning of weak and tame minds which have the power to resist energy . " As pruning fosters the ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND LIBERTY | 79 |
Copyright | |
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achieve aesthetic Almanzor Amelia angels assertion Augustan awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature criticism Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force forms gives harmony heart heaven hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live London Lovelace lovers MacFlecknoe man's Mandeville Mandeville's marriage meaning Milton mock Moll Moll Flanders moral move nature never novel once Oothoon order of charity order of mind Pascal passion pastoral pattern picturesque play pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's pride rational reason Reynolds satire scene seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury Songs of Experience soul spirit spiritual music Sterne sublime Swift Tale Theotormon things thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence Tristram Tristram Shandy true turn Urizen virtue vision words worldly
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