Literature and Reality, 1600-1800 |
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Page 104
... human feeling is over- borne by economic drives , it is not extinguished . Much the same can be seen with the treatment of Friday . It is true , that ' Crusoe does not ask his name , but gives him one ' ; not true that ' a functional ...
... human feeling is over- borne by economic drives , it is not extinguished . Much the same can be seen with the treatment of Friday . It is true , that ' Crusoe does not ask his name , but gives him one ' ; not true that ' a functional ...
Page 163
... Human Wishes and Rasselas he is concerned not to condemn the nonconformist characters who make the central interest , but to portray the inevitability and the poignancy of their urge to move beyond their lots , to become , rather than ...
... Human Wishes and Rasselas he is concerned not to condemn the nonconformist characters who make the central interest , but to portray the inevitability and the poignancy of their urge to move beyond their lots , to become , rather than ...
Page 171
... human being in its full com- pass of magnitude and multiplicity of complication , where is the wonder , that judging ... Human Wishes and Imlac's portrayal of the poet ( ch . 10 ) are clear : if no human being can ever fully survey the ...
... human being in its full com- pass of magnitude and multiplicity of complication , where is the wonder , that judging ... Human Wishes and Imlac's portrayal of the poet ( ch . 10 ) are clear : if no human being can ever fully survey the ...
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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