To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 209
... soul : that the soul was the outward , and the body the inward clothing . " Without the outward clothing ( which was " of daily creation and circumfusion " ) , in which " we live and move and have our being " ( cf. Acts 27:28 ) , the ...
... soul : that the soul was the outward , and the body the inward clothing . " Without the outward clothing ( which was " of daily creation and circumfusion " ) , in which " we live and move and have our being " ( cf. Acts 27:28 ) , the ...
Page 224
... soul and lead it up a steep and rocky trail into the light of the sun . But the soul resists this liberation , insisting that nothing exists but the life of the cave , clinging to its chains , weeping with anguish when forced to leave ...
... soul and lead it up a steep and rocky trail into the light of the sun . But the soul resists this liberation , insisting that nothing exists but the life of the cave , clinging to its chains , weeping with anguish when forced to leave ...
Page 228
... 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 body Nature is , and God the soul " ) . 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 body Nature is , and God the soul " ) . The ...
Contents
PREFACE vii | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND Liberty | 79 |
Copyright | |
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Absalom accept achieve Achitophel aesthetic Almanzor assertion Augustan Aureng-zebe awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Brobdingnag Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy epistle Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force forms freedom gives Gulliver's Travels happiness harmony heart hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live Lovelace lovers man's Mandeville Mandeville's meaning Milton Moll Flanders moral moralist move nature never novel once Oothoon order of charity order of mind painting Pascal passion pastoral pattern play pleasure poem poet poetry political Pope Pope's pride principles rational reason satire scene seeks seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury social Socrates Songs of Experience soul spirit Sterne sublime Swift Theotormon things thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence true turn Urizen virtue vision words worldly
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