The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to BurkeClarendon Press, 1965 - 314 pages |
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... dualistic vision of man which in varying degrees informs all humanist literature of whatever age . To those aware of the workings of the moral imagination , dualistic feelings are inescapable , for , as Johnson writes in 1 Meaning in ...
... dualistic vision of man which in varying degrees informs all humanist literature of whatever age . To those aware of the workings of the moral imagination , dualistic feelings are inescapable , for , as Johnson writes in 1 Meaning in ...
Page 113
... dualistic instinct that keeps Johnson's view of man , even when highly satiric in tendency , from ever turning into ... dualistic habit . He suggests to Mrs. Thrale that ' It is good to speak dubiously about futurity . It is likewise not ...
... dualistic instinct that keeps Johnson's view of man , even when highly satiric in tendency , from ever turning into ... dualistic habit . He suggests to Mrs. Thrale that ' It is good to speak dubiously about futurity . It is likewise not ...
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... dualistic direction by the natural operations of irony . But whatever we decide , there can be little doubt that there is an intimate relation between the dualistic method of mind and the humanist ob- session with the paradox of man ...
... dualistic direction by the natural operations of irony . But whatever we decide , there can be little doubt that there is an intimate relation between the dualistic method of mind and the humanist ob- session with the paradox of man ...
Contents
The Human Attributes | 28 |
The Uniformity of Human Nature | 54 |
The Depravity of Man | 70 |
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action actual animal architectural artistic asserts Augustan humanist beauty body Boswell Boswell's building Burke Burke's Castle century Christian clothing conceived constitute contempt creature delight depravity dignity Discourse dress dualistic Dunciad eighteenth elegiac elegy enemy epitaph Essay on Criticism ethical fabric feels figure frailty genres Geoffrey Scott Gibbon Gulliver Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels happy heroic hope Houyhnhnm human nature ideas Idler imagery imagination implies insects instinct ironic irony Jacobins James Boswell Johnson says Johnson writes kind King King Lear literary literature Lockean Lord man's materials mechanical metaphor military mind mock-heroic modern moral motif observation passage passion perhaps poem poet poetry Pope Pope's Popian Preface Rambler Rasselas reader reason redemption Renaissance Reynolds Reynolds's rhetorical Samuel Johnson satire seems sense Shakespeare siege social sort suggests Swift symbolic theory thing thought Thrale tion traditional uniformity of human Vanity virtue whole Windsor Castle