The Dialogue in English Literature, Issue 42 |
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... pictures of life as appear in the Dialogues of the Hetero ; and the third , to the keen satirical thrusts of the Dialogues of the Dead or the Dialogues of the Gods . In his hands the dialogue discovers itself to ( be a form of great ...
... pictures of life as appear in the Dialogues of the Hetero ; and the third , to the keen satirical thrusts of the Dialogues of the Dead or the Dialogues of the Gods . In his hands the dialogue discovers itself to ( be a form of great ...
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... pictures life - men and women as they are - as seen by the laughing spirit of comedy , that benignant creature of Meredith's fancy . Of the work of these three writers , that of Plato gains significance , apart from any artistic ...
... pictures life - men and women as they are - as seen by the laughing spirit of comedy , that benignant creature of Meredith's fancy . Of the work of these three writers , that of Plato gains significance , apart from any artistic ...
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... pictures of the life of the time presented in its pages . Such a book as this , as well as the catechisms , reflects the influence of Alcuin , 2 who had carried English learning to the Continent , and written text- books in dialogue for ...
... pictures of the life of the time presented in its pages . Such a book as this , as well as the catechisms , reflects the influence of Alcuin , 2 who had carried English learning to the Continent , and written text- books in dialogue for ...
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... pictures of the life of the tradesman ; the highly dramatic Krankheit der Messe of the Swiss Nik- laus Manuel , in which doctors stand at the bedside of the death - doomed Mass , and Pope and Cardinal tremble ; and the keen and vehement ...
... pictures of the life of the tradesman ; the highly dramatic Krankheit der Messe of the Swiss Nik- laus Manuel , in which doctors stand at the bedside of the death - doomed Mass , and Pope and Cardinal tremble ; and the keen and vehement ...
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... picture of the time . They differ in value ; for though some few of them are of real , intrinsic merit , others are chiefly valuable as human documents , while only a few of them have anything like the literary distinction of ...
... picture of the time . They differ in value ; for though some few of them are of real , intrinsic merit , others are chiefly valuable as human documents , while only a few of them have anything like the literary distinction of ...
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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 |