To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 82
... beauty lies . Is it in every single stroke or stone , which unitedly compose the whole design ? is it in any separate narrow part , or in the whole taken to- gether ? is it ( suppose ) in the foot - square of the building , or the inch ...
... beauty lies . Is it in every single stroke or stone , which unitedly compose the whole design ? is it in any separate narrow part , or in the whole taken to- gether ? is it ( suppose ) in the foot - square of the building , or the inch ...
Page 91
... beauty except for the sake of the original " ; he is free , that is , of the senses and can find beauty even where they are affronted . ( He is , in effect , a lover of the sublime as well as the beautiful . ) He has risen beyond the ...
... beauty except for the sake of the original " ; he is free , that is , of the senses and can find beauty even where they are affronted . ( He is , in effect , a lover of the sublime as well as the beautiful . ) He has risen beyond the ...
Page 174
... beauty , using these as steps only , and from one going on to two , and from two to all fair forms , and from fair ... beauty , and at last knows what the essence of beauty is ( Symposium 211 , trans . Benjamin Jowett ) . Pope moves from ...
... beauty , using these as steps only , and from one going on to two , and from two to all fair forms , and from fair ... beauty , and at last knows what the essence of beauty is ( Symposium 211 , trans . Benjamin Jowett ) . Pope moves from ...
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 |