The Dialogue in English Literature, Issue 42 |
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... begins for us with Plato . Tradition tells , indeed , of earlier Greeks who were writers of dialogues , among whom Zeno is reputed the earliest , but the work of these men has left no permanent impress on literature or on mankind . From ...
... begins for us with Plato . Tradition tells , indeed , of earlier Greeks who were writers of dialogues , among whom Zeno is reputed the earliest , but the work of these men has left no permanent impress on literature or on mankind . From ...
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... begins this inquirer . Sometimes the setting of the conversation stands out with much prominence sometimes it is barely mentioned . But always there are touches that keep our human interest in the speakers strong and vigorous , as when ...
... begins this inquirer . Sometimes the setting of the conversation stands out with much prominence sometimes it is barely mentioned . But always there are touches that keep our human interest in the speakers strong and vigorous , as when ...
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... begins this discussion with an address to his brother Quintus , referring to the wish of the latter that he should give more definitive expression to the rough draft of his views on oratory presented in earlier years . After writing of ...
... begins this discussion with an address to his brother Quintus , referring to the wish of the latter that he should give more definitive expression to the rough draft of his views on oratory presented in earlier years . After writing of ...
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... begins holding forth at length on the glory of the Pater Noster . There is a prose passage inserted in which Saturn asks such questions as : But who will shoot the devil with boiling shafts ? 2 But what kind of head hath the Pater ...
... begins holding forth at length on the glory of the Pater Noster . There is a prose passage inserted in which Saturn asks such questions as : But who will shoot the devil with boiling shafts ? 2 But what kind of head hath the Pater ...
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... begins by confessing its many sins , enumerated in detail , and goes on to ask for help : ' I will blithely listen to thy counsel , and all the more blithely if thou wouldst show me thy unknown name . ' Reason answers , explaining that ...
... begins by confessing its many sins , enumerated in detail , and goes on to ask for help : ' I will blithely listen to thy counsel , and all the more blithely if thou wouldst show me thy unknown name . ' Reason answers , explaining that ...
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¹ Cf Alciphron Angler appeared argument beauty Ben Jonson Berkeley Bishop Boethius catechism character characterization charm Cicero debate developed dialogue-form dialogue-writing didactic didacticism discourse discussion doctrine earlier eighteenth-century England English dialogue English literature English philosophers Erasmus essay Euphranor exposition expository dialogue expression French friends give Glossary Greek group of dialogues Hence human Hume Hylas ical imitation influence interest interlude Irenæus lack Lady Jane Grey Landor Latin less literary living logues London Lucian manner matter mediæval mind modern moral narrative nature Old English pamphlets perhaps personality Ph.D Philo philosophical dialogues Plato Platonic dialogue poem polemical dialogue present prose Prudentius purpose reader religious represent Roger Ascham Salomon and Saturn satire Saturn scepticism Shaftesbury sixteenth century Socrates soul speakers spirit style subject-matter suggest tell tendencies thought tone touches tradition translated Transubstantiation treatise true truth turn versation views words writers written
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Page 35 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 105 - If the whole of Natural Theology, as some people seem to maintain, resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous, at least undefined proposition, That the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence...
Page 35 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 80 - I mean the arming-wire, through his mouth and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the...
Page 94 - It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
Page 93 - That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what everybody will allow. And it seems no less evident that the various sensations or ideas imprinted on the sense, however blended or combined together (that is, whatever objects they compose), cannot exist otherwise than in a mind perceiving them.
Page 105 - You would perceive, by the sample I have given you, that I make Cleanthes the hero of the dialogue. Whatever you can think of to strengthen that side of the argument, will be most acceptable to me.
Page 97 - ... from whence it rose : its ascent, as well as descent, proceeding from the same uniform law or principle of gravitation. Just so, the same principles which at first view lead to scepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
References to this book
John Bale, a Study in the Minor Literature of the Reformation Jesse W. Harris No preview available - 1940 |