The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... moral purpose : Ask you what provocation I have had ? The strong antipathy of good to bad . When truth or virtue an affront endures , The affront is mine , my friend , and should be yours . Mine , as a foe profess'd to false pretence ...
... moral purpose : Ask you what provocation I have had ? The strong antipathy of good to bad . When truth or virtue an affront endures , The affront is mine , my friend , and should be yours . Mine , as a foe profess'd to false pretence ...
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... moral writing first and finds there certain key points of reference from which to move to larger generalizations about Johnson's themes and techniques . Strange and paradoxical as the language may seem , Johnson had a passion for the ...
... moral writing first and finds there certain key points of reference from which to move to larger generalizations about Johnson's themes and techniques . Strange and paradoxical as the language may seem , Johnson had a passion for the ...
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... moral precepts , and to bestow their applause and blame on the same virtues and vices . This great unanimity is usually ascribed to the influence of plain reason , which in all these cases maintains similar sentiments in all men and ...
... moral precepts , and to bestow their applause and blame on the same virtues and vices . This great unanimity is usually ascribed to the influence of plain reason , which in all these cases maintains similar sentiments in all men and ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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