Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... falls by his own defects from normality , but who at length and in the course of things recovers . " Every spectator , " says Davies , " feels for himself and common humanity , when he perceives man , while living , degraded to the ...
... falls by his own defects from normality , but who at length and in the course of things recovers . " Every spectator , " says Davies , " feels for himself and common humanity , when he perceives man , while living , degraded to the ...
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... falls short of calling the whole world mad , but its trajectory lies unmistakably in that ✓ direction . In his ... fall . And this is of course the atmosphere of the great satires : Gulliver remarks that it gave him melancholy ...
... falls short of calling the whole world mad , but its trajectory lies unmistakably in that ✓ direction . In his ... fall . And this is of course the atmosphere of the great satires : Gulliver remarks that it gave him melancholy ...
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... falls heavily on the mind's limitations , its liabilities and weaknesses ; and the emphases of Newton and Bacon , as Blake read them , fall on facts , memory , and analysis , especially on a perception of nature as objective and without ...
... falls heavily on the mind's limitations , its liabilities and weaknesses ; and the emphases of Newton and Bacon , as Blake read them , fall on facts , memory , and analysis , especially on a perception of nature as objective and without ...
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CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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