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Page 143
... imaginative power of art . He locates the sublime within such attributes as darkness , silence , empti- ness , vastness , ruggedness , power . It involves detached con- templation , for aesthetic ends , of what would cause fear in a ...
... imaginative power of art . He locates the sublime within such attributes as darkness , silence , empti- ness , vastness , ruggedness , power . It involves detached con- templation , for aesthetic ends , of what would cause fear in a ...
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... imaginative course . Dryden manages to make us feel that Shadwell is a microscopic creature , and yet somehow a real threat . The author writes with a kind of impatient charity ; his victim is shown as ignoble and inept , but just about ...
... imaginative course . Dryden manages to make us feel that Shadwell is a microscopic creature , and yet somehow a real threat . The author writes with a kind of impatient charity ; his victim is shown as ignoble and inept , but just about ...
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... imaginative writing . The ' new province ' was in fact old territory re - annexed , or to put it another way a redistribution of existing boundaries . In the course of Tom Jones Fielding claims a great deal for the novel . But he K ...
... imaginative writing . The ' new province ' was in fact old territory re - annexed , or to put it another way a redistribution of existing boundaries . In the course of Tom Jones Fielding claims a great deal for the novel . But he K ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
Copyright | |
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