Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... Rules , which Reason had derived from the scrutiny of Nature . During the reign of Louis XIV ( 1661-1715 ) , the authoritarianism evi- dent in society had a parallel in literary criticism , where the Rules received disciplined form pre ...
... Rules , which Reason had derived from the scrutiny of Nature . During the reign of Louis XIV ( 1661-1715 ) , the authoritarianism evi- dent in society had a parallel in literary criticism , where the Rules received disciplined form pre ...
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... Rule or Art , " and yet Milton's God , like Browne's " Skilful Geometrician , " takes up ( in the person of His Son ) ... Rules . De - emphasize the " Miltonic " principle of " variety " and emphasize the " order " of " disorderly order ...
... Rule or Art , " and yet Milton's God , like Browne's " Skilful Geometrician , " takes up ( in the person of His Son ) ... Rules . De - emphasize the " Miltonic " principle of " variety " and emphasize the " order " of " disorderly order ...
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... Rules impressed most educated Eng- lishmen as ineluctably reasonable ; " to copy Nature is to copy Them . ” Dryden remains convinced that the Rules are somehow right and natural , and yet he could never lend himself to a rigor- ous ...
... Rules impressed most educated Eng- lishmen as ineluctably reasonable ; " to copy Nature is to copy Them . ” Dryden remains convinced that the Rules are somehow right and natural , and yet he could never lend himself to a rigor- ous ...
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