Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismJames Lowry Clifford Oxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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... human reason to attain metaphysical and theological truth . A safer guide in this life seemed to him to be what he called ' common forms , ' the consensus gentium , the time - approved wisdom of the race . ( 2 ) Experimental and ...
... human reason to attain metaphysical and theological truth . A safer guide in this life seemed to him to be what he called ' common forms , ' the consensus gentium , the time - approved wisdom of the race . ( 2 ) Experimental and ...
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... human affection for each other , but they love every one equally . It is all very admirable , but it is remote from the possibilities of human life . Does Swift intend us to accept this as his ideal way of life ? He who loved and hated ...
... human affection for each other , but they love every one equally . It is all very admirable , but it is remote from the possibilities of human life . Does Swift intend us to accept this as his ideal way of life ? He who loved and hated ...
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... human reason , European man has sunk nearer to the Yahoo pole of his nature than he has risen toward the Houyhnhnm pole . The seeds of human society and of human de- pravity , as they exist in Europe , are clearly discerned in the ...
... human reason , European man has sunk nearer to the Yahoo pole of his nature than he has risen toward the Houyhnhnm pole . The seeds of human society and of human de- pravity , as they exist in Europe , are clearly discerned in the ...
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THE GLOOM OF THE TORY SATIRISTS | 3 |
THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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