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Page 44
... opposites , it is with complete consistency that Pope describes it as the vehicle for the concordant sentiments of the golden mean . So also the targets of his satire become the " sad Burthen of some merry Song " ( 80 ) . Vice and the ...
... opposites , it is with complete consistency that Pope describes it as the vehicle for the concordant sentiments of the golden mean . So also the targets of his satire become the " sad Burthen of some merry Song " ( 80 ) . Vice and the ...
Page 85
... opposites and its resultant chaos . Poetic ( and pecuniary ) poverty outwardly shows their spiritual bankruptcy and disorder ; through self - seeking pride , they too overreach themselves , imbalance the microcosm that is man and in ...
... opposites and its resultant chaos . Poetic ( and pecuniary ) poverty outwardly shows their spiritual bankruptcy and disorder ; through self - seeking pride , they too overreach themselves , imbalance the microcosm that is man and in ...
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... opposites -greatness without position , wealth without material pos- sessions , freedom even in prison . It is for this reason also that Pope here refers to Bolingbroke by the titles he gave him in the fourth epistle of the Essay on Man ...
... opposites -greatness without position , wealth without material pos- sessions , freedom even in prison . It is for this reason also that Pope here refers to Bolingbroke by the titles he gave him in the fourth epistle of the Essay on Man ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SATIRE | 37 |
APOLOGIA PRO VITA | 73 |
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