Literature and Reality, 1600-1800 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 48
Page 137
... whole area of ex- perience : his relaxation here is the expression not so much of generosity as of confidence . Richardson's novel was written partly as a panegyric on that Puritan mode of conduct which , taking its light from the ...
... whole area of ex- perience : his relaxation here is the expression not so much of generosity as of confidence . Richardson's novel was written partly as a panegyric on that Puritan mode of conduct which , taking its light from the ...
Page 171
... whole at once we readily note the discriminations and decide the preference : but of two systems , of which neither can be surveyed by any human being in its full com- pass of magnitude and multiplicity of complication , where is the ...
... whole at once we readily note the discriminations and decide the preference : but of two systems , of which neither can be surveyed by any human being in its full com- pass of magnitude and multiplicity of complication , where is the ...
Page 172
... whole picture ? We may argue that we are meant to feel that Nekayah is wrong , that she could have drawn a more adequate universal truth by concluding that marriage shows a peculiar mixture of pleasure and pain rather than nothing but ...
... whole picture ? We may argue that we are meant to feel that Nekayah is wrong , that she could have drawn a more adequate universal truth by concluding that marriage shows a peculiar mixture of pleasure and pain rather than nothing but ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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 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