To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 26
... achieved a purity that looks very much like irrelevance . Man can no longer take excessive pride in his reason , but can he trust his mind at all ? Is nature merely ... achieve or even thinks he has achieved . Yet 26 TO THE PALACE OF WISDOM.
... achieved a purity that looks very much like irrelevance . Man can no longer take excessive pride in his reason , but can he trust his mind at all ? Is nature merely ... achieve or even thinks he has achieved . Yet 26 TO THE PALACE OF WISDOM.
Page 102
... achieve order mechanically . The artist may come in time to imitate nature's " supreme order , " but until he does , the natural is likely to be better than his artifice . With his achieve- ment of discipline and a full vision of ...
... achieve order mechanically . The artist may come in time to imitate nature's " supreme order , " but until he does , the natural is likely to be better than his artifice . With his achieve- ment of discipline and a full vision of ...
Page 181
... achieve a moral existence ; his task is to unbias his mind and attain impartiality as best he can- through the rejection of partisan zeal , through the test of what men have agreed upon through the ages , through conscientious ...
... achieve a moral existence ; his task is to unbias his mind and attain impartiality as best he can- through the rejection of partisan zeal , through the test of what men have agreed upon through the ages , through conscientious ...
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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