Augustan Studies: Essays in Honor of Irvin EhrenpreisDouglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan University of Delaware Press, 1985 - 270 pagina's Fifteen essay span the whole of the Augustan period (1660-1800). The volume concludes with a checklist of Ehrenpreis's published works. |
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... drama into the novel , and the develop- ment of the sentimental novel ; literary- theoretical developments , such as the emergence of concepts of sincerity and of the picturesque . The volume con- cludes with a checklist of Ehrenpreis's ...
... drama into the novel , and the develop- ment of the sentimental novel ; literary- theoretical developments , such as the emergence of concepts of sincerity and of the picturesque . The volume con- cludes with a checklist of Ehrenpreis's ...
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... drama is not new , but is a repetitive pattern in literary history ; note the movement from short fiction to ... dramatic romance , mixes characters from the lowest and highest classes and is comprehensive in the sense that it includes ...
... drama is not new , but is a repetitive pattern in literary history ; note the movement from short fiction to ... dramatic romance , mixes characters from the lowest and highest classes and is comprehensive in the sense that it includes ...
Pagina 19
... drama produces a genre in which song functions to make sophisticated what was unsophisticated , to bring to artistic unity what in street literature was inconsistent , even con- tradictory . There are other commercial aspects to this ...
... drama produces a genre in which song functions to make sophisticated what was unsophisticated , to bring to artistic unity what in street literature was inconsistent , even con- tradictory . There are other commercial aspects to this ...
Pagina 20
... dramatic action . The ballad opera , therefore , indicated a particular interweaving of time past with time present and in its own way established a correspondence to the procedure of " imitating " ( as Dryden used the term ) of ...
... dramatic action . The ballad opera , therefore , indicated a particular interweaving of time past with time present and in its own way established a correspondence to the procedure of " imitating " ( as Dryden used the term ) of ...
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A Perpetual Torrent Drydens Lucretian Style | 47 |
The Wit and Weight of Clarendon | 65 |
The Barbinade and the SheTragedy On John Bankss The Unhappy Favourite | 79 |
Fatal Marriages? Restoration Plays Embedded in EighteenthCentury Novels | 95 |
Sincerity Delusion and Character in the Fiction of Defoe and the Sincerity Crisis of His Time | 109 |
Swifts SelfPortraits in Verse | 127 |
Jonathan Richardsons Morning Thoughts | 173 |
Sternes Script The Performing of Tristram Shandy | 193 |
Johnsons Rasselas Limits of Wisdom Limits of Art | 203 |
Johnsonian Prospectuses and Proposals | 213 |
Curious Eye Some Aspects of Visual Description in EighteenthCentury Literature | 237 |
Sentimental Deeducation | 251 |
A Handlist of Published Works | 261 |
Insects Vermin and Horses Gullivers Travels and Virgils Georgics | 145 |
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Pagina 241 - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee O sylvan Wye!
Pagina 154 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Pagina 242 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot.
Pagina 133 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!
Pagina 37 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Pagina 135 - Suppose me dead; and then suppose A club assembled at the Rose; Where from discourse of this and that, I grow the subject of their chat: And, while they toss my name about, With favour some, and some without; One quite...
Pagina 41 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Pagina 51 - Lucretius (I mean of his soul and genius) is a certain kind of noble pride and positive assertion of his opinions. He is everywhere confident of his own reason, and assuming an absolute command, not only over his vulgar reader, but even his patron Memmius. For he is always bidding him attend as if he had the rod over him, and using a magisterial authority while he instructs him.
Pagina 60 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Pagina 19 - I have observed those countries, where trade is promoted and encouraged, do not make discoveries to destroy, but to improve mankind by love and friendship; to tame the fierce and polish the most savage...