To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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... seek his private salvation , there is no principle of resistance . One cannot resist , one can only renounce . For resistance ... seeks to shock those men Shaftesbury was later to call " half - thinkers . " Historians have observed that ...
... seek his private salvation , there is no principle of resistance . One cannot resist , one can only renounce . For resistance ... seeks to shock those men Shaftesbury was later to call " half - thinkers . " Historians have observed that ...
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... seeks to make no absolute choices ; he is pragmatic and utilitarian . Mandeville admires his freedom from cant , but he does not seek , like Shaw , to identify this practical realism with moral superiority . ( Shaw's Caesar in Caesar ...
... seeks to make no absolute choices ; he is pragmatic and utilitarian . Mandeville admires his freedom from cant , but he does not seek , like Shaw , to identify this practical realism with moral superiority . ( Shaw's Caesar in Caesar ...
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... seek " What nothing earthly gives , or can destroy " ( IV , 167 ) , he seeks it by involving himself in the world : Happier as kinder , in whate'er degree , And height of Bliss but height of Charity ( IV , 359-60 ) . ii . THE PROBLEM OF ...
... seek " What nothing earthly gives , or can destroy " ( IV , 167 ) , he seeks it by involving himself in the world : Happier as kinder , in whate'er degree , And height of Bliss but height of Charity ( IV , 359-60 ) . ii . THE PROBLEM OF ...
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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