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For which misfortune , leaving my readers to condole with each other , as far as they shall find it to agree with their several ... that bridle in the mouth , that ring in the nose , of a lazy and impatient , and a grunting reader .
For which misfortune , leaving my readers to condole with each other , as far as they shall find it to agree with their several ... that bridle in the mouth , that ring in the nose , of a lazy and impatient , and a grunting reader .
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Aristotle has given no reason for this precept , but I presume it is because the mind of the reader is more awed and elevated when he hears Aeneas or Achilles speak than when Virgil or Homer talk in their own persons — besides that ...
Aristotle has given no reason for this precept , but I presume it is because the mind of the reader is more awed and elevated when he hears Aeneas or Achilles speak than when Virgil or Homer talk in their own persons — besides that ...
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might be prevented , but that an opportunity might be secured of striking the reader's mind with a circumstance new and unexpected . But notwithstanding the plan and conduct of Spenser in the poem before us is highly exceptionable ...
might be prevented , but that an opportunity might be secured of striking the reader's mind with a circumstance new and unexpected . But notwithstanding the plan and conduct of Spenser in the poem before us is highly exceptionable ...
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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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