The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney D. C. Heath, 1980 - 765 pages |
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... kind ? And is it a wonder we should be dull then , as we are , confounded and at a loss in these affairs , blind as to this higher scene , these nobler representations ? Which way should we come to understand better ? Which way be ...
... kind ? And is it a wonder we should be dull then , as we are , confounded and at a loss in these affairs , blind as to this higher scene , these nobler representations ? Which way should we come to understand better ? Which way be ...
Page 574
... kind of pleasure ? -Effemi- nancy pleases me . The Indian figures , the Japan - work , the enamel strike my eye . The lus- cious colours and glossy paint gain upon my fancy . A French or Flemish style is highly liked by me at first ...
... kind of pleasure ? -Effemi- nancy pleases me . The Indian figures , the Japan - work , the enamel strike my eye . The lus- cious colours and glossy paint gain upon my fancy . A French or Flemish style is highly liked by me at first ...
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... kind or another . There is no kind of invention in which there is fuller scope af- forded to the exercise of imagination than in that of allegory , which has this advantage over most other fables , that in it the author is by no means ...
... kind or another . There is no kind of invention in which there is fuller scope af- forded to the exercise of imagination than in that of allegory , which has this advantage over most other fables , that in it the author is by no means ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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