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... assertion , even at its most splendid . As with Donne's lovers , of whom we are reminded so often , the heroic is carried to the point where its magnificence derives from its precariousness . Dryden's heroes are statements of the ...
... assertion , even at its most splendid . As with Donne's lovers , of whom we are reminded so often , the heroic is carried to the point where its magnificence derives from its precariousness . Dryden's heroes are statements of the ...
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... assertion . The self - assertion is still there , in Almanzor's defiance of heaven ; this sacrifice of all hope of winning Almahide in order to save her husband's life is the highest pitch of refinement the world can achieve , and it is ...
... assertion . The self - assertion is still there , in Almanzor's defiance of heaven ; this sacrifice of all hope of winning Almahide in order to save her husband's life is the highest pitch of refinement the world can achieve , and it is ...
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... assertion of an order beyond that of the world where " other trophies deck the truly brave " ( II , 236 ) , a world with " other stars " than those that royalty wear , a world of " Honor not conferr'd by kings . " This is surely the ...
... assertion of an order beyond that of the world where " other trophies deck the truly brave " ( II , 236 ) , a world with " other stars " than those that royalty wear , a world of " Honor not conferr'd by kings . " This is surely the ...
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 |