To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 213
... desire to the greater ; the desire is only magnified as it seeks substitute ( not higher ) forms . The desire for conquest in the realm of ideas , the creation of new systems of belief , is likewise a form of madness , " for what man in ...
... desire to the greater ; the desire is only magnified as it seeks substitute ( not higher ) forms . The desire for conquest in the realm of ideas , the creation of new systems of belief , is likewise a form of madness , " for what man in ...
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... desire to the greater ; the desire is only magnified as it seeks substitute ( not higher ) forms . The desire for conquest in the realm of ideas , the creation of new systems of belief , is likewise a form of madness , " for what man in ...
... desire to the greater ; the desire is only magnified as it seeks substitute ( not higher ) forms . The desire for conquest in the realm of ideas , the creation of new systems of belief , is likewise a form of madness , " for what man in ...
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... desire of satisfying a vora- cious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh . " He grants that ... desires " but need not be . " Esteem and gratitude " fuse with the amorous desires and give them stability that can ...
... desire of satisfying a vora- cious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh . " He grants that ... desires " but need not be . " Esteem and gratitude " fuse with the amorous desires and give them stability that can ...
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 |