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Fontenelle ard La Mottel are entitled to the former character , but what can they urge to gain the latter ? Which of these characters is the most valuable and useful is entirely out of the question . All I plead for is to have their ...
Fontenelle ard La Mottel are entitled to the former character , but what can they urge to gain the latter ? Which of these characters is the most valuable and useful is entirely out of the question . All I plead for is to have their ...
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To maintain this character throughout he must rely on his own fund : his own plastic imagination must supply him with ... Many of the most splendid images of poetry have been already exhibited , many of the most striking characters in ...
To maintain this character throughout he must rely on his own fund : his own plastic imagination must supply him with ... Many of the most splendid images of poetry have been already exhibited , many of the most striking characters in ...
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In Swift's satire , the character's “ ignorance ” is generally of a particular kind : he is ignorant of the correct evaluation of his own moral nature . Accordingly , Gulliver's reflections on the discrepancy between man's real nature ...
In Swift's satire , the character's “ ignorance ” is generally of a particular kind : he is ignorant of the correct evaluation of his own moral nature . Accordingly , Gulliver's reflections on the discrepancy between man's real nature ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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