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a > 100 Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight , More studious to divide than to unite ; And grace and virtue , sense and reason split , With all the rash dexterity of wit . Wits , just like fools , at war about a name ...
a > 100 Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight , More studious to divide than to unite ; And grace and virtue , sense and reason split , With all the rash dexterity of wit . Wits , just like fools , at war about a name ...
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Whether with reason or with instinct blest , Know , all enjoy that power which suits them best ; 80 To bliss alike by that direction tend , And find the means proportion'd to their end . Say , where full instinct is the unerring guide ...
Whether with reason or with instinct blest , Know , all enjoy that power which suits them best ; 80 To bliss alike by that direction tend , And find the means proportion'd to their end . Say , where full instinct is the unerring guide ...
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Similarly , from the humanistic emphasis upon reason as man's distinctive faculty and as his means of contact with the universe , there arise in the Renaissance and culminate in neo - classicism an optimism , based on a confidence in ...
Similarly , from the humanistic emphasis upon reason as man's distinctive faculty and as his means of contact with the universe , there arise in the Renaissance and culminate in neo - classicism an optimism , based on a confidence in ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
Copyright | |
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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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