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Page 78
... existence in the latter poem , where there are hints of a virtue drawn into the service of vice : their pace was formal , grave and slack : His nimble Wit outran the heavy Pack . Yet still he found his Fortune at a stay ; Whole droves ...
... existence in the latter poem , where there are hints of a virtue drawn into the service of vice : their pace was formal , grave and slack : His nimble Wit outran the heavy Pack . Yet still he found his Fortune at a stay ; Whole droves ...
Page 81
... existence and make him a disturber of the common peace . Dryden senses the excitement and exhilaration his arch - fiend derives from overstepping the limits of order , with an ambition to extend them ; he sees also that the possibility ...
... existence and make him a disturber of the common peace . Dryden senses the excitement and exhilaration his arch - fiend derives from overstepping the limits of order , with an ambition to extend them ; he sees also that the possibility ...
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... existence of a pattern of order in the universe , and showing man where he belonged in God's scheme of things . Bad argument cannot immortalize any more than can bad poetry , and Pope's argument is not sound . Neither is his poetry to ...
... existence of a pattern of order in the universe , and showing man where he belonged in God's scheme of things . Bad argument cannot immortalize any more than can bad poetry , and Pope's argument is not sound . Neither is his poetry to ...
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