The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... LIGHT con- Having considered extension , so far as it is capable of raising ideas of greatness ; color comes next under consideration . All colors depend on light . Light therefore ought previously to be examined ; and with it its ...
... LIGHT con- Having considered extension , so far as it is capable of raising ideas of greatness ; color comes next under consideration . All colors depend on light . Light therefore ought previously to be examined ; and with it its ...
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... light ; snow , white and cold ; and manna white and sweet , from the ideas they produce in us , which qualities are ... light , heat , whiteness , or coldness , are no more really in them than sickness or pain is in manna . Take away the ...
... light ; snow , white and cold ; and manna white and sweet , from the ideas they produce in us , which qualities are ... light , heat , whiteness , or coldness , are no more really in them than sickness or pain is in manna . Take away the ...
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... light which we re- ceive by our eyes or touch from the sun , are com- monly thought real qualities existing in the sun , and something more than mere powers in it . But when we consider the sun in reference to wax , which it melts or ...
... light which we re- ceive by our eyes or touch from the sun , are com- monly thought real qualities existing in the sun , and something more than mere powers in it . But when we consider the sun in reference to wax , which it melts or ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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Aeneid Alexander Pope ancient Atossa beauty behold called cause Church Colley Cibber colonies court critics death delight Dryden Dunciad England English Essay Essay on Criticism eyes fair fame father fools genius give goddess grace Grongar Hill Gulliver's Travels happy head heart Heaven honour hope human ideas images imagination Imlac Johnson Jonathan Swift kind king labour laws learning liberty live Lord Lucretius mankind ment mind modern moral Muse nature never nymph o'er observed once pain passions Pekuah Peter pleased pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's praise pride prince principle Queen Rasselas reader reason Samuel Johnson satire Scriblerus Club sense shade Shakespeare soul spirit spleen sublime sure Swift sylphs Thalestris thee things thou thought tion true truth verse virtue Whig whole wind wise words write