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... irony of his preoccupation with " other ends ” . They are preserved from the debasing effects of their application by his ironic awareness that the cultural ideals have a significance and importance beyond the use he makes of them in a ...
... irony of his preoccupation with " other ends ” . They are preserved from the debasing effects of their application by his ironic awareness that the cultural ideals have a significance and importance beyond the use he makes of them in a ...
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... Irony preserves the poet from the perversity of his engagement — to the extent Pope is preserved from it . He is talking nonsense , and only the fact of its being ironically expressed estab- lishes sense in what he does . Albeit the ...
... Irony preserves the poet from the perversity of his engagement — to the extent Pope is preserved from it . He is talking nonsense , and only the fact of its being ironically expressed estab- lishes sense in what he does . Albeit the ...
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... irony , merely the mindless , undesigned , uncoordinated consequences of stupidity , of fumbling and groping in the obscurity ; they are random imbecilities , usually having less sense than ill intention or malice would have guaranteed ...
... irony , merely the mindless , undesigned , uncoordinated consequences of stupidity , of fumbling and groping in the obscurity ; they are random imbecilities , usually having less sense than ill intention or malice would have guaranteed ...
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An Essay on Man | 175 |
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