Enlightenment Essays, Volumes 1-3

American argues argument artistic attempt audience Bacon beauty Becky believed Blake Blake's Burnet Cambridge Platonists character Christian Church Cicero civil Cleanthes concept concern critics death Defoe Defoe's deism dialogue Diderot divine DOMASO Dryden dunces Dunciad eclogue effect eighteenth century England English Enlightened Despotism ENLIGHTENMENT ESSAYS Euthyphro existence experience fact genre human Hume Hume's ideas imitation important impotent poor individual intellectual interest Johnson Kant knowledge learning Les Liaisons dangereuses letters literary literature Locke Locke's man's Milton mind modern Montesquieu moral natural law novel passions person Philo philosophical play poem poet poetic poetry political poor Pope position present principles problem Professor rational reader reading reason religion religious RICHARD HARDIN Rousseau Samuel Johnson satire says scripture sense social society Spinoza stanza Swift theory things thought tion tradition truth University Vanity Vanity Fair Voltaire writing Yiddish