The Major Satires of Alexander PopeFolcroft Library Editions, 1974 - 163 Seiten |
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... moral potentialities in the face of ever - present temptations to revert to the beast . His pursuit of perfection is , furthermore , complicated by human pride , so that the faster he retrogresses , the more he may convince himself that ...
... moral potentialities in the face of ever - present temptations to revert to the beast . His pursuit of perfection is , furthermore , complicated by human pride , so that the faster he retrogresses , the more he may convince himself that ...
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... moral and social responsibilities that direct all human activities . The virtuosi , pursuing private enjoyment , have spent money and energy in pursuit of useless rarities ; the rationalizing divines have sought to found metaphysics in ...
... moral and social responsibilities that direct all human activities . The virtuosi , pursuing private enjoyment , have spent money and energy in pursuit of useless rarities ; the rationalizing divines have sought to found metaphysics in ...
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... moral state of persons , he hoped to enlarge prevailing conceptions of pleasure and happiness , and to improve thereby the moral tone of the times . His end was essentially noble . It remains noble , even if at times expressed in savage ...
... moral state of persons , he hoped to enlarge prevailing conceptions of pleasure and happiness , and to improve thereby the moral tone of the times . His end was essentially noble . It remains noble , even if at times expressed in savage ...
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Chapter Two THE Dunciad Variorum of 1729 | 9 |
Chapter Three THE Essay on Man AND THE Ethic Epistles | 32 |
Chapter Four THE Imitations of Horace | 66 |
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Alexander Pope appeared April Arbuthnot asserted Atossa attack August Balaam Bolingbroke booksellers of London British Museum character Cibber Colley Cibber copy corruption criticism Crousaz December dialogue dullness dunces Dunciad Variorum Earl of Burlington earlier early edition Edmund Curll effort Egerton MSS Epistle to Dr Epistle to Lord Essay Ethic Epistles February fourth book Gilliver his Executors Grub-street Horatian satire Imitations of Horace interest January John Caryll June Lady Mary late Lawton Gilliver Leonard Welsted letter London and Westminster Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Hervey Lord Oxford manuscript March Marginalia Matthew Concanen Miscellanies moral notes November Occasion'd pamphlet passage passions philosophical poet poetry Pope his Executors Pope's portrait printed prose publication published readers reason Robert satirist Scriblerus Second Book sketch sold Spence Sporus Swift Theobald things tion told translation Twickenham verse virtue volume Walpole Welsted William Fortescue William Warburton writing written wrote