The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... human mind to distinguish the forms or species of bodies that are upon the earth , from an infinity of others which might have been , if it had pleased God to place them there , or consequently to apply them to our use , un- less we ...
... human mind to distinguish the forms or species of bodies that are upon the earth , from an infinity of others which might have been , if it had pleased God to place them there , or consequently to apply them to our use , un- less we ...
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... Human Wishes , and in his superb and remarkably modern analysis of the hunger of imagination and the treachery of the human heart in his Rambler papers . In short , one sees dramatic evidence of human greed and ambition , of ...
... Human Wishes , and in his superb and remarkably modern analysis of the hunger of imagination and the treachery of the human heart in his Rambler papers . In short , one sees dramatic evidence of human greed and ambition , of ...
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... human folly and vice . There are , it should be remem- bered , two versions : the first , a short , comic piece , and the later , the magnificent , full - blown mock - epic of 1713 with its elaborate Rosicrucian machinery of sylphs ...
... human folly and vice . There are , it should be remem- bered , two versions : the first , a short , comic piece , and the later , the magnificent , full - blown mock - epic of 1713 with its elaborate Rosicrucian machinery of sylphs ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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