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... true wit , and what Augustan writers whose thoughts were taking a similar direction can help us to compre- hend the import of his view ? In the course of exposing false wit , Pope suggests two criteria by which true wit may be ...
... true wit , and what Augustan writers whose thoughts were taking a similar direction can help us to compre- hend the import of his view ? In the course of exposing false wit , Pope suggests two criteria by which true wit may be ...
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... true wit , we see , sense , liveliness , and worthy expression might coalesce . So likewise it appeared in the opinion of the great Robert Boyle , who remarked that wit , ' that nimble and acceptable Faculty of the Mind , ' involves ...
... true wit , we see , sense , liveliness , and worthy expression might coalesce . So likewise it appeared in the opinion of the great Robert Boyle , who remarked that wit , ' that nimble and acceptable Faculty of the Mind , ' involves ...
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... true of The Bard . Here Gray tries to write dramatically ; he addresses us in the person of a medieval druid about to commit suicide . Such a role does not suit him . Gray was excited by reading about druids ; but he was not at all like ...
... true of The Bard . Here Gray tries to write dramatically ; he addresses us in the person of a medieval druid about to commit suicide . Such a role does not suit him . Gray was excited by reading about druids ; but he was not at all like ...
Inhalt
THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT | 84 |
Urheberrecht | |
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