To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 45
... Christian priest's arrogant dogmatism ; man cannot go beyond natural reason without risking the self - deceptions of pride . He cannot accept the authority of an " unerring head " of the Christian church : MONT . Man , and not err ...
... Christian priest's arrogant dogmatism ; man cannot go beyond natural reason without risking the self - deceptions of pride . He cannot accept the authority of an " unerring head " of the Christian church : MONT . Man , and not err ...
Page 191
... Christianity " would very much enlarge and establish liberty of conscience . " The Church may be in great danger when the Christian religion is repealed ; in fact , abolishing Christianity " may be intended as one politic step towards ...
... Christianity " would very much enlarge and establish liberty of conscience . " The Church may be in great danger when the Christian religion is repealed ; in fact , abolishing Christianity " may be intended as one politic step towards ...
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... Christian names on classical statues becomes a symptom of a frightened and superstitious author- ity clinging to the ... Christian zeal conspire , And Papal piety , and Gothic fire ( 13-14 ) . Dulness thrives on any cause that forsakes ...
... Christian names on classical statues becomes a symptom of a frightened and superstitious author- ity clinging to the ... Christian zeal conspire , And Papal piety , and Gothic fire ( 13-14 ) . Dulness thrives on any cause that forsakes ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND LIBERTY | 79 |
Copyright | |
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achieve aesthetic Almanzor Amelia Antony assertion Augustan awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force forms freedom gives happiness harmony heart heaven hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live 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 seeks seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury Songs of Experience soul spirit spiritual music Sterne sublime Swift Theotormon things Thomson thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence Tristram Tristram Shandy turn Urizen virtue vision words worldly
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Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam No preview available - 1999 |