To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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... limited . What is more important , the order of wisdom is not that of the rulers . Far from being philosophers ( although he dreams of the possibility in his letter to Queen Christina ) , Pascal's kings occupy the lowest of his orders ...
... limited . What is more important , the order of wisdom is not that of the rulers . Far from being philosophers ( although he dreams of the possibility in his letter to Queen Christina ) , Pascal's kings occupy the lowest of his orders ...
Page 185
... limited mon- archy , Parliament remains the supreme magistrate in its power to determine succession or to depose the monarch ; and Swift implies that Hobbes might have avoided his needless absolutism in the Leviathan if he had ...
... limited mon- archy , Parliament remains the supreme magistrate in its power to determine succession or to depose the monarch ; and Swift implies that Hobbes might have avoided his needless absolutism in the Leviathan if he had ...
Page 441
... limited authority as truth . He distin- guishes between the imitation that is narrowly conceived as deception and the ideal imitation ( of a " higher order of beings " ) that depends upon legitimate artistic illusion . His most striking ...
... limited authority as truth . He distin- guishes between the imitation that is narrowly conceived as deception and the ideal imitation ( of a " higher order of beings " ) that depends upon legitimate artistic illusion . His most striking ...
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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