The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... truth in fresh ways and of discovering the most nearly perfect vehicle of expression to embody and express that truth . The virtue is propriety , a bond of intimacy between word and idea . Far from resorting to the lifeless abstraction ...
... truth in fresh ways and of discovering the most nearly perfect vehicle of expression to embody and express that truth . The virtue is propriety , a bond of intimacy between word and idea . Far from resorting to the lifeless abstraction ...
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... truth to succeeding ages . " The irregular combinations of fanciful invention , " he writes in the majestic Preface to Shakespeare , “ may delight a - while , by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ...
... truth to succeeding ages . " The irregular combinations of fanciful invention , " he writes in the majestic Preface to Shakespeare , “ may delight a - while , by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ...
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... Truth's eternal measures ; thence to frame The sacred laws of action and of will , Discerning justice from unequal deeds , And temperance from folly . But beyond This energy of Truth , whose dictates bind Assenting Reason , the ...
... Truth's eternal measures ; thence to frame The sacred laws of action and of will , Discerning justice from unequal deeds , And temperance from folly . But beyond This energy of Truth , whose dictates bind Assenting Reason , the ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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