The Background of English Neo-classicism: With Some Comments on Swift and Pope |
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... popularity of the coffee - house clubs perhaps one ought to be a little cautious in condemn- ing it as entirely unrealistic and futile . The weekly papers of the Tatler and Spectator brand also testify to the popularity and influence of ...
... popularity of the coffee - house clubs perhaps one ought to be a little cautious in condemn- ing it as entirely unrealistic and futile . The weekly papers of the Tatler and Spectator brand also testify to the popularity and influence of ...
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... popular philosophers , it will be remembered , believed that the first human beings lived in a sort of Golden Age . This belief followed from the widespread theory that all men were endowed at birth with an equal share of reason , and ...
... popular philosophers , it will be remembered , believed that the first human beings lived in a sort of Golden Age . This belief followed from the widespread theory that all men were endowed at birth with an equal share of reason , and ...
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... popular with the neo - classicists , perhaps too much so . Pope's use , however , is always poetically justified since his choice of words brings out qualities that are actually in the object which he describes . The following examples ...
... popular with the neo - classicists , perhaps too much so . Pope's use , however , is always poetically justified since his choice of words brings out qualities that are actually in the object which he describes . The following examples ...
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