To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 170
... languages . Of his father he writes , Unlearn'd , he knew no Schoolman's subtle art , No language , but the language of the heart ( Arbuthnot , 398–99 ) . In contrast we have the timid advice of Fortescue , 170 TO THE PALACE OF WISDOM.
... languages . Of his father he writes , Unlearn'd , he knew no Schoolman's subtle art , No language , but the language of the heart ( Arbuthnot , 398–99 ) . In contrast we have the timid advice of Fortescue , 170 TO THE PALACE OF WISDOM.
Page 206
... language efficient . That is to say , keep it accurate , keep it clear . . . . Language is the main means of human communication . If an ani- mal's nervous system does not transmit sensations and stimuli , the animal atrophies . If a ...
... language efficient . That is to say , keep it accurate , keep it clear . . . . Language is the main means of human communication . If an ani- mal's nervous system does not transmit sensations and stimuli , the animal atrophies . If a ...
Page 335
... language of criticism , for all its limitations , is necessary to show the artless art of Walter's rhetoric or Trim's oratorical postures , to catch Toby's benign oval of a face , or the eloquent " venereal " eyes of the Widow Wadman ...
... language of criticism , for all its limitations , is necessary to show the artless art of Walter's rhetoric or Trim's oratorical postures , to catch Toby's benign oval of a face , or the eloquent " venereal " eyes of the Widow Wadman ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND LIBERTY | 79 |
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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 |