Essay on ManUniversity Press, 1913 - 87 sider |
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Side ix
... matter for the particular epistles . ' These sheets or their contents are now in- cluded in Bolingbroke's fragmentary writings , and it is impossible not to recognise that passages which , in Bolingbroke's prose , would have been ...
... matter for the particular epistles . ' These sheets or their contents are now in- cluded in Bolingbroke's fragmentary writings , and it is impossible not to recognise that passages which , in Bolingbroke's prose , would have been ...
Side xvi
... matter . Bolingbroke used the language of sound criticism when he distinguished between the functions of the philosopher and those of the poet who embodies philosophy in his verse . The poet ' must contract , he may shadow , he has a ...
... matter . Bolingbroke used the language of sound criticism when he distinguished between the functions of the philosopher and those of the poet who embodies philosophy in his verse . The poet ' must contract , he may shadow , he has a ...
Side xvii
... matter . The characteristic merits of his poem are somewhat in keeping with his inverted notion that nature grafts virtues upon our vices . His train of thought , imperfectly followed and not seldom involving itself in contradiction ...
... matter . The characteristic merits of his poem are somewhat in keeping with his inverted notion that nature grafts virtues upon our vices . His train of thought , imperfectly followed and not seldom involving itself in contradiction ...
Side xviii
... matter - of - fact basis of the things of life , after a period of intellectual and political disturbance . Dryden , whose verse was never wholly freed from the influence of the older school of poets , gave the couplet a vigour and ...
... matter - of - fact basis of the things of life , after a period of intellectual and political disturbance . Dryden , whose verse was never wholly freed from the influence of the older school of poets , gave the couplet a vigour and ...
Side xix
... matter is crowded into a couplet or a succession of couplets that connecting particles are omitted , words are left to the understanding , and the construction becomes so elliptic that not merely is the sense obscure , but the grammar ...
... matter is crowded into a couplet or a succession of couplets that connecting particles are omitted , words are left to the understanding , and the construction becomes so elliptic that not merely is the sense obscure , but the grammar ...
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Absalom and Achitophel æther alike allusion argument arts beasts benevolence blessing blest bliss Bolingbroke Catiline chain Cicero couplet Cyrenaic death Decius divine Dryden earth earthly Epicurus EPISTLE eternal Ev'n ev'ry evil faith fame favour follow fool form'd frailties future gen'ral Gilbert Wakefield giv'n gives God's gods gradation happiness Heaven hope human nature imperfect int'rest kings laws less than angel lines living LORD BOLINGBROKE Lucretius man's mankind Mark Pattison Marlborough master passion matter means mind Moral Essays natural instinct Nature's road note on Ep object pain passage Pattison perfect philosopher phrase Plato pleasure poem poet Pope Pope's pow'r present pride principles Procne reason regard rise ruling angels Self-love Self-love and social sense shew social love soul St John stoicism thee things thinking thou thro true Turenne tyrant Umbra universe vice virtue Warburton weak whole wise