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... reading may be achieved by mediating between these two extremes . The Essay on Man is undoubtedly related to the De Rerum Natura , but its methodology is as much innovative as imi- tative . Pope interprets Lucretius in a novel way ...
... reading may be achieved by mediating between these two extremes . The Essay on Man is undoubtedly related to the De Rerum Natura , but its methodology is as much innovative as imi- tative . Pope interprets Lucretius in a novel way ...
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... reading of the Essay , it is evident that Pope fre- quently picks up such themes or devices from Lucretius as : 1 ) the uni- verse as a theatre ( " this scene of Man " [ I , 5 ] ) ( 57 ) ; 2 ) Newton as possess- ing illuminating and ...
... reading of the Essay , it is evident that Pope fre- quently picks up such themes or devices from Lucretius as : 1 ) the uni- verse as a theatre ( " this scene of Man " [ I , 5 ] ) ( 57 ) ; 2 ) Newton as possess- ing illuminating and ...
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... reading Homer in the summer resort of Praeneste . Homer in fact expounds ethical maxims that surpass those of the philosophers Chrysippus and Crantor ( 1-4 ) . He proceeds to offer an essentially moral reading of the Iliad , a poem ...
... reading Homer in the summer resort of Praeneste . Homer in fact expounds ethical maxims that surpass those of the philosophers Chrysippus and Crantor ( 1-4 ) . He proceeds to offer an essentially moral reading of the Iliad , a poem ...
Contents
Grays playexercise at Eton | 13 |
Grays Luna Habitabilis | 35 |
from epithalamium to epic | 51 |
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