To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 182
... Swift leaves much more room for public aspiration . Swift's religious emphasis isolates the specifically moral and obligatory in Christianity , by insisting upon the immediate intui- tion of the right . He is , in fact , constantly ...
... Swift leaves much more room for public aspiration . Swift's religious emphasis isolates the specifically moral and obligatory in Christianity , by insisting upon the immediate intui- tion of the right . He is , in fact , constantly ...
Page 183
... Swift is aware of the danger , and he writes with beautiful irony ( in An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen , 1728 ) on the power of " discretion " to make a career for itself in the church ( or any institution ) . Discretion , as Swift ...
... Swift is aware of the danger , and he writes with beautiful irony ( in An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen , 1728 ) on the power of " discretion " to make a career for itself in the church ( or any institution ) . Discretion , as Swift ...
Page 448
... Swift : OrdER AND OBLIGATION ? 1. I have chosen these terms with reference to W. D. Ross's famous discussion , The Right and the Good , Oxford , 1930. HD refers to Herbert Davis's edition of The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift , Oxford ...
... Swift : OrdER AND OBLIGATION ? 1. I have chosen these terms with reference to W. D. Ross's famous discussion , The Right and the Good , Oxford , 1930. HD refers to Herbert Davis's edition of The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift , Oxford ...
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 |