Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 451 pages |
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Page xxii
... passion of reform . Though passion is the only recourse , it cannot be expected to accomplish anything , for honest men , except to support the individual's sense of his own virtue . Indeed , Gay's ironic perspective on his society is ...
... passion of reform . Though passion is the only recourse , it cannot be expected to accomplish anything , for honest men , except to support the individual's sense of his own virtue . Indeed , Gay's ironic perspective on his society is ...
Page xlv
... passions as furies is , for example , a common one ; it connects the uncontrolled emotions of man with the most ... passion of anger , implicitly condemned because it involved essential scorn of one human being for another , failure ...
... passions as furies is , for example , a common one ; it connects the uncontrolled emotions of man with the most ... passion of anger , implicitly condemned because it involved essential scorn of one human being for another , failure ...
Page 56
... passions rise , And anger sparkling in your eyes , I grieve those spirits should be spent , For nobler ends by nature meant . One passion , with a different turn , Makes wit inflame , or anger burn : 110 115 So the sun's heat , with ...
... passions rise , And anger sparkling in your eyes , I grieve those spirits should be spent , For nobler ends by nature meant . One passion , with a different turn , Makes wit inflame , or anger burn : 110 115 So the sun's heat , with ...
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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