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... Augustan compromise . Shaftesbury differs from the greatest Augus- tans in his greater trust in man's natural goodness and his greater hatred of authority . In a sense , his optimism about man's capacities is , as R. L. Brett has ...
... Augustan compromise . Shaftesbury differs from the greatest Augus- tans in his greater trust in man's natural goodness and his greater hatred of authority . In a sense , his optimism about man's capacities is , as R. L. Brett has ...
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... Augustan mock form ; and the systematic embarrassment of the traditional view is the stuff of comedy . In The Tragedy of Tragedies Fielding sub- verted forms with a high - spirited extravagance , but the forms he sub- verted were ...
... Augustan mock form ; and the systematic embarrassment of the traditional view is the stuff of comedy . In The Tragedy of Tragedies Fielding sub- verted forms with a high - spirited extravagance , but the forms he sub- verted were ...
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... . What is this relationship ? Here we meet the problem we find in all Augustan irony . Ultimately , behind the work we see the historical author , the real personality behind the mask . In 294 TO THE PALACE OF WISDOM.
... . What is this relationship ? Here we meet the problem we find in all Augustan irony . Ultimately , behind the work we see the historical author , the real personality behind the mask . In 294 TO THE PALACE OF WISDOM.
Contents
PREFACE vii | 1 |
Order and Orders | 10 |
The Instance of Pascal | 18 |
Copyright | |
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Absalom accept achieve Achitophel Almanzor artist assertion Augustan Aureng-zebe awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Brobdingnag Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy epistle Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force freedom gives Gulliver's Travels harmony heart hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live Lovelace lovers MacFlecknoe man's Mandeville Mandeville's marriage meaning Milton's Moll Flanders moral moralist move nature never novel once Oothoon order of charity order of mind painting Pascal passion pastoral pattern play pleasure poem poet poetry political Pope Pope's pride rational reason satire scene seeks seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury social Songs of Experience soul spirit Sterne sublime Swift Theotormon things thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence Tristram true turn Urizen virtue vision words worldly
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Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam No preview available - 1999 |