Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismJames Lowry Clifford Oxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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... remark that he would die like the tree , first at the top , is repeated with all the solemnity of an oracular doom in Greek tragedy , whereas common sense tells us that , within the limits of Swift's medical knowledge , it could only ...
... remark that he would die like the tree , first at the top , is repeated with all the solemnity of an oracular doom in Greek tragedy , whereas common sense tells us that , within the limits of Swift's medical knowledge , it could only ...
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... remark on the part of one who professed to abhor cynicism , and most undiscriminating coming from a moral reformer . Burke , in a famous passage , said that ' vice itself lost half its evil , by losing all its grossness ' ; but he ...
... remark on the part of one who professed to abhor cynicism , and most undiscriminating coming from a moral reformer . Burke , in a famous passage , said that ' vice itself lost half its evil , by losing all its grossness ' ; but he ...
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... remark is like a scorching wind from the hermitages of the Thebaid . Addison is never blasphemous or irreverent ; Swift can be both . That , I think , helps to confirm the kind of distinction I am drawing between them . Swift still ...
... remark is like a scorching wind from the hermitages of the Thebaid . Addison is never blasphemous or irreverent ; Swift can be both . That , I think , helps to confirm the kind of distinction I am drawing between them . Swift still ...
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THE ESSAY ON CRITICIS M | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
THE BACKGROUND OF THE ATTACK | 68 |
Urheberrecht | |
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