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39 those who recollect , that of Congreve's38 four comedies , two are concluded by a marriage in a mask , by a deception , which perhaps never happened , and which , whether likely or not , he did not invent . So careless was this great ...
39 those who recollect , that of Congreve's38 four comedies , two are concluded by a marriage in a mask , by a deception , which perhaps never happened , and which , whether likely or not , he did not invent . So careless was this great ...
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Spain , in her provinces , is perhaps not so well obeyed as you are in yours . She complies , too ; she submits ; she watches times . This is the immutable condition , the eternal law , of extensive and detached empire .
Spain , in her provinces , is perhaps not so well obeyed as you are in yours . She complies , too ; she submits ; she watches times . This is the immutable condition , the eternal law , of extensive and detached empire .
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the mind looked on and considered there to be a real positive idea in the understanding , as much as any other whatsoever ; though perhaps the cause of it be but a privation in the subject . 2. Thus the ideas of heat and cold , light ...
the mind looked on and considered there to be a real positive idea in the understanding , as much as any other whatsoever ; though perhaps the cause of it be but a privation in the subject . 2. Thus the ideas of heat and cold , light ...
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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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