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But following wits from that intention stray'd , If , where the rules not far enough extend , Who could not win the mistress , woo'd the maid ; ( Since rules were made but to promote their end ) Against the poets their own arms they ...
But following wits from that intention stray'd , If , where the rules not far enough extend , Who could not win the mistress , woo'd the maid ; ( Since rules were made but to promote their end ) Against the poets their own arms they ...
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Heaven visits with a taste the wealthy fool , And needs no rod but Ripley with a rule . ... Yet shall ( my lord ) your just , your noble rules Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take ...
Heaven visits with a taste the wealthy fool , And needs no rod but Ripley with a rule . ... Yet shall ( my lord ) your just , your noble rules Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take ...
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The rule and order of decorum are of special importance in the total formation and unraveling of the outline or plot of ... If the rules be well considered , ” Dryden quotes from Rapin , " we shall find them to be made only to reduce ...
The rule and order of decorum are of special importance in the total formation and unraveling of the outline or plot of ... If the rules be well considered , ” Dryden quotes from Rapin , " we shall find them to be made only to reduce ...
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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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