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... nature and divinity ; they are the most pre - eminently useful of all moralists . For Poesy , which like contracted Essences seems the utmost strength & activity of Nature , is as all good Arts subservient to Religion , all marching ...
... nature and divinity ; they are the most pre - eminently useful of all moralists . For Poesy , which like contracted Essences seems the utmost strength & activity of Nature , is as all good Arts subservient to Religion , all marching ...
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... Nature : For Nature performs all things by corre- spondent aids and harmony . And ' tis injurious not to think Poets the most useful Moralists , for as Poesy is adorn'd and sublim'd by Musick , which makes it more pleasant and ...
... Nature : For Nature performs all things by corre- spondent aids and harmony . And ' tis injurious not to think Poets the most useful Moralists , for as Poesy is adorn'd and sublim'd by Musick , which makes it more pleasant and ...
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... nature of human happiness , and Pope's conclusions there were exactly the same as they are here . Happiness does not consist in any sublunary good nor in any of the gifts of Fortune ; rather " the perfection of Virtue and Hap- piness ...
... nature of human happiness , and Pope's conclusions there were exactly the same as they are here . Happiness does not consist in any sublunary good nor in any of the gifts of Fortune ; rather " the perfection of Virtue and Hap- piness ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SATIRE | 37 |
APOLOGIA PRO VITA | 73 |
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