To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 72
... matter of Transubstantiation . But he is not rejecting reason ; instead , he is claiming it , in the old metaphor of ... matters that it is needful to know . We have moved from moral doctrines to sacramental myster- ies , but the appeal ...
... matter of Transubstantiation . But he is not rejecting reason ; instead , he is claiming it , in the old metaphor of ... matters that it is needful to know . We have moved from moral doctrines to sacramental myster- ies , but the appeal ...
Page 228
... matter claiming to generate form . Just as the soul is the forma informans of man ( Dryden plays upon this in his portrait of Achitophel , whose fiery soul " o'er informs " his tenement of clay ) , so God is of the uni- verse ( " Whose ...
... matter claiming to generate form . Just as the soul is the forma informans of man ( Dryden plays upon this in his portrait of Achitophel , whose fiery soul " o'er informs " his tenement of clay ) , so God is of the uni- verse ( " Whose ...
Page 414
... matters whether one regards the moment of visionary splendor as intoxication ( as Byron does ) to be followed by the ... matter is the way in which the idea of energy as the power of transcendence cuts through any dualism of mind and ...
... matters whether one regards the moment of visionary splendor as intoxication ( as Byron does ) to be followed by the ... matter is the way in which the idea of energy as the power of transcendence cuts through any dualism of mind and ...
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 |