English Literature

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) his "Pastorals," "Windsor Forest," "Messiah," "Essay on Crit- icism," "Elo ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) sprites, sylphs, and salamanders,^155 instead of the gods of the great epi ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent la ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) The proper study of Mankind is Man. The same ambition can destroy or save, ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) used it to insult the very men who had helped him, and who held his fate i ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) ter his position with Temple grew unbearable, quarreled with his patron, t ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Writing to the Duchess of Queensberry he says: I am glad you know your dut ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) astrologer named Partridge, who duped the public by cal- culating nativiti ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) satire upon the abuses of Christianity by its professed follow- ers that i ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Calvinists; and the way in which the sons evade their father’s will and ch ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) selves, and show the crude vices of humanity as Swift fancies he sees them ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) grotesque creations, the reader never loses the sense of real- ity, of bei ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) their little vanities. Two things Addison did for our literature which are ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) (1697), with its kindly appreciation of King William’s states- men, brough ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty la ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) serenely in 1719. A brief description from Thackeray’sEn- glish Humoristsi ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) company which extends from Chaucer’s country parson to Kipling’s Mulvaney. ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) And intimates eternity to man. Many readers make frequent use of one porti ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) the short space of less than four years, did more to influence subsequent ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) which had been made famous by Swift a few years before. Addison is said to ...