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... tion of whips and scorpions , it is added , is a necessary and wholesome corrective ; like Hamlet , we must " be cruel only to be kind . " On this fundamental principle one may proceed to vindicate satire in two ways . A correction may ...
... tion of whips and scorpions , it is added , is a necessary and wholesome corrective ; like Hamlet , we must " be cruel only to be kind . " On this fundamental principle one may proceed to vindicate satire in two ways . A correction may ...
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... tion of the Leviathan in 1651 we need concern ourselves with only one : the issue involved in Hobbes ' contention , which was indeed central to his whole political theory , that without a government possessed of complete power the ...
... tion of the Leviathan in 1651 we need concern ourselves with only one : the issue involved in Hobbes ' contention , which was indeed central to his whole political theory , that without a government possessed of complete power the ...
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... tion , leads Johnson to forget , in some of his best critical com- ments , the antitheses between reason and fancy that are else- where sharply drawn . His very language is such that one cannot always separate the rational from the ...
... tion , leads Johnson to forget , in some of his best critical com- ments , the antitheses between reason and fancy that are else- where sharply drawn . His very language is such that one cannot always separate the rational from the ...
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A Note in Defence of Satire 12 L | 12 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
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