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Page 36
... becomes mere shadow . The premises of the magician Comus are steadily reduced to the point of nonentity . Comus in the end not only has no case : he has no relation to reality at all . At first he poses as the voice of nature , anxious ...
... becomes mere shadow . The premises of the magician Comus are steadily reduced to the point of nonentity . Comus in the end not only has no case : he has no relation to reality at all . At first he poses as the voice of nature , anxious ...
Page 43
... become communal : he joins with - in a sense is Theocritus , Moschus , Virgil , Petrarch or Spenser ; and King , in being metamorphosed to Lycidas , becomes one with Daphnis , Bion , Gallus , or Dido . This guarantees the universality ...
... become communal : he joins with - in a sense is Theocritus , Moschus , Virgil , Petrarch or Spenser ; and King , in being metamorphosed to Lycidas , becomes one with Daphnis , Bion , Gallus , or Dido . This guarantees the universality ...
Page 142
... becomes Mr Booby in Shamela partly because , except by fools , the lower orders are not to be brought to the same level as their betters . Nor was Fielding happy with a female character as centrepiece : in Tom Jones he tells us how Mrs ...
... becomes Mr Booby in Shamela partly because , except by fools , the lower orders are not to be brought to the same level as their betters . Nor was Fielding happy with a female character as centrepiece : in Tom Jones he tells us how Mrs ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Achitophel admit argues argument attack attitude Augustan Balaam becomes Chanticleer character Chaucer's Christian civilisation Comus concerned context contrast Cowper Crabbe Crabbe's Crusoe's death Defoe Defoe's novels Deserted Village Donne Donne's Dryden eighteenth-century Elegy Epistle Essays example fact fancy feel Fielding Fielding's further give Goldsmith Gray Gray's happy Heaven Ian Watt Il Penseroso Johnson Jones L'Allegro Lady lines literature live Lycidas marriage Milton mind miseries Moll Moll Flanders moral nature nature's notion Nun's Priest's Nun's Priest's Tale o'er object pains Pamela passion peasant Penseroso Penshurst perhaps picture pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's portrayal portrayed pride Rasselas reality Robinson Crusoe rustic Satan satire says scene seen sense Shamela shows simply social soul speaker spiritual stanza Swift tale thee theme things Thomson thou thought Tom Jones tree Triffids truth universe virtue vision write