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... Dryden's Religio Laici , Pope's Essay would fall somewhere about the middle , with a slight inclination toward Dryden . Compared with Hopkins , the Essay on Man is a poem con- ducted on a high level of abstraction ; it states as often ...
... Dryden's Religio Laici , Pope's Essay would fall somewhere about the middle , with a slight inclination toward Dryden . Compared with Hopkins , the Essay on Man is a poem con- ducted on a high level of abstraction ; it states as often ...
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... Dryden's poem is genuinely ratiocinative , genuinely an argument , and everything about it accords with this : its tone is thoughtful , dispassionate , expository , like that of a man recounting what he has seen at a play ; its ...
... Dryden's poem is genuinely ratiocinative , genuinely an argument , and everything about it accords with this : its tone is thoughtful , dispassionate , expository , like that of a man recounting what he has seen at a play ; its ...
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... Dryden's Lucret . , III 255–8 ; Guardian , 169 ; Bolingbroke to Swift , 20 Mar. 1731 ; Pope to Digby , 1 Sept. 1722 ; Pope to Knight , 8 Nov. 1729. Writing to Mrs Moore , 7 Dec. 1727 , of the declines of age , Swift says , " yet they ...
... Dryden's Lucret . , III 255–8 ; Guardian , 169 ; Bolingbroke to Swift , 20 Mar. 1731 ; Pope to Digby , 1 Sept. 1722 ; Pope to Knight , 8 Nov. 1729. Writing to Mrs Moore , 7 Dec. 1727 , of the declines of age , Swift says , " yet they ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | xi |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | lxxxi |
NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS | xc |
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