The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... sense of calm among the upper classes as well as a sense of a reasonable and practical approach to the business of society . The years of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century were a period of great growth . The population ...
... sense of calm among the upper classes as well as a sense of a reasonable and practical approach to the business of society . The years of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century were a period of great growth . The population ...
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... sense of total contempt and , although the critical content is manifestly present , it coalesces with the reader's recognition of the technique itself . Now , in any angry invective against specific abuses or general actions , we may sense ...
... sense of total contempt and , although the critical content is manifestly present , it coalesces with the reader's recognition of the technique itself . Now , in any angry invective against specific abuses or general actions , we may sense ...
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... sense of sight gradually developed into an interest in all the senses , their processes and their inter - relationships . Addison stressed par- ticularly the Lockean idea that all the senses act in harmony while subordinated to the sense ...
... sense of sight gradually developed into an interest in all the senses , their processes and their inter - relationships . Addison stressed par- ticularly the Lockean idea that all the senses act in harmony while subordinated to the sense ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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