The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... seems to have been erected only in compliance with that hunger of imagination which preys incessantly upon life , and must always be ap- peased by some employment . Those who have already all that they can enjoy , must enlarge their ...
... seems to have been erected only in compliance with that hunger of imagination which preys incessantly upon life , and must always be ap- peased by some employment . Those who have already all that they can enjoy , must enlarge their ...
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... seems to produce without labour , what no la- bour can improve . In tragedy he is always strug- gling after some occasion to be comick , but in com- edy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his ...
... seems to produce without labour , what no la- bour can improve . In tragedy he is always strug- gling after some occasion to be comick , but in com- edy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his ...
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... seems not always fully to comprehend his own design . He omits oppor- tunities of instructing or delighting which the train of his story seems to force upon him , and appar- ently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting ...
... seems not always fully to comprehend his own design . He omits oppor- tunities of instructing or delighting which the train of his story seems to force upon him , and appar- ently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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