To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 138
... existence of God ) . But , too often , at any point where the Order runs contrary to his private interest , man accuses Order . The tenor of Pope's optimism must be understood by setting it against the other voice in the Essay . The ...
... existence of God ) . But , too often , at any point where the Order runs contrary to his private interest , man accuses Order . The tenor of Pope's optimism must be understood by setting it against the other voice in the Essay . The ...
Page 188
... existence . Politics circumvents the weakness of most men- particularly men in groups , where the worst prevails - but systems only promote that weakness by blinding the mind to the choices it cannot resign . A small instance of this ...
... existence . Politics circumvents the weakness of most men- particularly men in groups , where the worst prevails - but systems only promote that weakness by blinding the mind to the choices it cannot resign . A small instance of this ...
Page 288
... existence of laws tempts men to self - righteous adherence to their letter rather than a generous pursuit of their spirit . What I have spoken of , in connection with Pope's Essay on Man , as the fluidity of relatedness is precisely ...
... existence of laws tempts men to self - righteous adherence to their letter rather than a generous pursuit of their spirit . What I have spoken of , in connection with Pope's Essay on Man , as the fluidity of relatedness is precisely ...
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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