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Page 56
... Milton's poem , but to the " fatal mercy " of David - the besetting weakness we have already seen in his indulgence of Absalom . Milton's Satan is divided between Dryden's two titular figures . The dark side that we see in all its ...
... Milton's poem , but to the " fatal mercy " of David - the besetting weakness we have already seen in his indulgence of Absalom . Milton's Satan is divided between Dryden's two titular figures . The dark side that we see in all its ...
Page 59
... Milton's Satan : the second is shown to us at the outset of Paradise Lost but gives way to the first . Here , by showing us the first working upon the second in a process of overt and rapid temptation , Dryden colors the tragic fall of ...
... Milton's Satan : the second is shown to us at the outset of Paradise Lost but gives way to the first . Here , by showing us the first working upon the second in a process of overt and rapid temptation , Dryden colors the tragic fall of ...
Page 81
... Milton's Abdiel had taken in his denunciation of Satan : Unjustly thou deprav'st it with the name Of Servitude to serve whom God ordains , Or Nature ; God and Nature bid the same , When he who rules is worthiest , and excels Those whom ...
... Milton's Abdiel had taken in his denunciation of Satan : Unjustly thou deprav'st it with the name Of Servitude to serve whom God ordains , Or Nature ; God and Nature bid the same , When he who rules is worthiest , and excels Those whom ...
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 |