To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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... Reason can find no certainties on which to rest except the wretchedness of man's condition . If it can discern the intolerable horror of the secular world view of the fleshly , it can only prepare the mind for an assent to more than it ...
... Reason can find no certainties on which to rest except the wretchedness of man's condition . If it can discern the intolerable horror of the secular world view of the fleshly , it can only prepare the mind for an assent to more than it ...
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... reason must trust these intuitions of the heart , and must base on them every argument " ( 282 ) . The possibili- ties of a rational universe are hopeless . We live , after all , and for good cause , less by the slow constructions of reason ...
... reason must trust these intuitions of the heart , and must base on them every argument " ( 282 ) . The possibili- ties of a rational universe are hopeless . We live , after all , and for good cause , less by the slow constructions of reason ...
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... Reason to the soul : and , as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky , Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent , not to assure our doubtful way , But guide us upward to a better day . And as those nightly ...
... Reason to the soul : and , as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky , Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent , not to assure our doubtful way , But guide us upward to a better day . And as those nightly ...
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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