Essay on ManUniversity Press, 1913 - 87 sider |
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Side xi
... line ' of Leibniz . Pope's philosophical reading was anything but wide , and his misleading allusions to ancient philosophy are proof that his interest in such subjects was superficial . It may fairly be concluded that such reading as ...
... line ' of Leibniz . Pope's philosophical reading was anything but wide , and his misleading allusions to ancient philosophy are proof that his interest in such subjects was superficial . It may fairly be concluded that such reading as ...
Side xii
... line of the poem . It is also shadowed forth in the daring speculation that Heaven may be deliberately respon- sible for certain aspects of moral evil ( ep . i , 1. 155 sqq . ) -i.e. that what seems to man a breach in the moral world is ...
... line of the poem . It is also shadowed forth in the daring speculation that Heaven may be deliberately respon- sible for certain aspects of moral evil ( ep . i , 1. 155 sqq . ) -i.e. that what seems to man a breach in the moral world is ...
Side xix
... lines of a couplet , with two contrasted subjects in one balanced by their objects in the other ; the con- tinual use of demonstratives to avoid repetition and to knit the threads of a prolonged contrast or comparison more tightly ...
... lines of a couplet , with two contrasted subjects in one balanced by their objects in the other ; the con- tinual use of demonstratives to avoid repetition and to knit the threads of a prolonged contrast or comparison more tightly ...
Side xx
... lines in which the career of Marlborough served him as an example of the vanity of human greatness contain no overt reference to the real object of his satire . The familiar comparisons and similes in which he indulged when imitating ...
... lines in which the career of Marlborough served him as an example of the vanity of human greatness contain no overt reference to the real object of his satire . The familiar comparisons and similes in which he indulged when imitating ...
Side xxxviii
... line of ancestors . But worth alone is to be valued in a pedigree : the most ancient blood cannot ennoble the worthless . ( 193-216 . ) Again , greatness is popularly supposed to be the prerogative of heroes and the wise . But heroes ...
... line of ancestors . But worth alone is to be valued in a pedigree : the most ancient blood cannot ennoble the worthless . ( 193-216 . ) Again , greatness is popularly supposed to be the prerogative of heroes and the wise . But heroes ...
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