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Page 135
... seems to realize that satire and art are passing from the scene and that a " sprightlier Age " has come " titt'ring on " -an age in which " Folly " reigns and little can be done to reform it . The optimism expressed in " An Essay on Man ...
... seems to realize that satire and art are passing from the scene and that a " sprightlier Age " has come " titt'ring on " -an age in which " Folly " reigns and little can be done to reform it . The optimism expressed in " An Essay on Man ...
Page 142
... seems to have been part of a new plan : to issue a series of poems , each of which would be a “ Dia- logue Something like Horace " dwelling on the state of affairs in England during the year named in the title . That Pope had some such ...
... seems to have been part of a new plan : to issue a series of poems , each of which would be a “ Dia- logue Something like Horace " dwelling on the state of affairs in England during the year named in the title . That Pope had some such ...
Page 159
... seems valid to me , especially if one sees the poetry written before 1717 as “ moral " in a general sense ( as expressing a moral view of the world ) and the later poems as " moral " in a specific way ( as consciously addressed to moral ...
... seems valid to me , especially if one sees the poetry written before 1717 as “ moral " in a general sense ( as expressing a moral view of the world ) and the later poems as " moral " in a specific way ( as consciously addressed to moral ...
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