Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... common Passion , or a complication of common Passions . " ' 12 True , he says , most men lack the fire to express themselves poetically , but the source of poetry is present in all of us . Sir William Temple , Swift's patron , says the ...
... common Passion , or a complication of common Passions . " ' 12 True , he says , most men lack the fire to express themselves poetically , but the source of poetry is present in all of us . Sir William Temple , Swift's patron , says the ...
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... common Understanding , as well as common Sense , is Kickt out of Doors , " his mad narrator at last confessing that " even , I my self , the Author of these momentous Truths , am a Person , whose Imaginations are hard - mouth'd , and ...
... common Understanding , as well as common Sense , is Kickt out of Doors , " his mad narrator at last confessing that " even , I my self , the Author of these momentous Truths , am a Person , whose Imaginations are hard - mouth'd , and ...
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... common name to all . to omit all impertinent digressions , to say no more of such as are improperly melancholy , or metaphorically mad , lightly mad , or in disposition , as stupid , angry , drunken , silly , sottish , sullen , proud ...
... common name to all . to omit all impertinent digressions , to say no more of such as are improperly melancholy , or metaphorically mad , lightly mad , or in disposition , as stupid , angry , drunken , silly , sottish , sullen , proud ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
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