Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-century English LiteratureUniversity of Delaware Press, 1997 - 200 páginas In one of his Idlers, Johnson indicated the problems involved in such an achievement as follows: "As a question becomes more complicated and involved, and extends to a greater number of relations, disagreement of opinion will always be multiplied: not because we are irrational, but because we are finite beings, furnished with different kinds of knowledge, exerting different degrees of attention, one discovering consequences which escape another, none taking in the whole concatenation of causes and effects, and most comprehending but a very small part, each comparing what he observes with a different criterion and each referring it to a different purpose. "Where, then, is the wonder, that they who see only a small part should judge erroneously of the whole? |
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... author's account of courtesy as a creative attitude allowed him to illuminate the individual practices and meanings of the Rambler , An Essay on Man , and Tristram Shandy ? Has he been able , in discussing such works as essays in common ...
... author's account of courtesy as a creative attitude allowed him to illuminate the individual practices and meanings of the Rambler , An Essay on Man , and Tristram Shandy ? Has he been able , in discussing such works as essays in common ...
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... authors extremely attentive to particular instances or what they often described as " circum- stances . " Elinor Dashwood noted such circumstances as " the picture , the letter , the ring " when she was trying to get a grasp on the ...
... authors extremely attentive to particular instances or what they often described as " circum- stances . " Elinor Dashwood noted such circumstances as " the picture , the letter , the ring " when she was trying to get a grasp on the ...
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... authors ' commitment to this foundation was as firm as it was deliberate . All aspects of their style , its diction , its syntax , its figures , and its rhetoric demonstrate this commitment , in the words of Sprat , " to bring knowledge ...
... authors ' commitment to this foundation was as firm as it was deliberate . All aspects of their style , its diction , its syntax , its figures , and its rhetoric demonstrate this commitment , in the words of Sprat , " to bring knowledge ...
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... authors , nevertheless , agreed with the spirit of Sprat's pronouncement . " In Peri Bathous , for example , Pope and Swift12 poke fun at those who fail to use language to recall sense experience or who recall it falsely : ... nothing ...
... authors , nevertheless , agreed with the spirit of Sprat's pronouncement . " In Peri Bathous , for example , Pope and Swift12 poke fun at those who fail to use language to recall sense experience or who recall it falsely : ... nothing ...
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... authors were determined , that is to say , both to establish a community of experience and , using that as a foundation , to construct a community of opinion . This com- plex commitment to both sense and community is not mere ...
... authors were determined , that is to say , both to establish a community of experience and , using that as a foundation , to construct a community of opinion . This com- plex commitment to both sense and community is not mere ...
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Popes Poetry | 41 |
Sternes Fiction | 75 |
Johnsons Criticism | 101 |
Boswells Biography | 137 |
Conclusion | 162 |
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Términos y frases comunes
A. A. Luce acknowledges actually Addison agreement Alexander Pope allows apparent Arbuthnot argument asserts Atossa attention audience Author Berkeley Berkeley's biographical Bolingbroke Boswell Boswell's circle common sense Consider conversation course courteous courtesy described Dialogues disagreement discourse discussion doubt Dunciad eighteenth-century ellipsis enforces epistle Essay on Criticism evident example experience explains exposition figures human Hylas imagine individual intellectual Johnson judgment knowledge literary Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lycidas Malebranche ment Milton's mind moreover nature never observed occasion once opinion particular passage passive voice Percival Philonous philosophers poem poet poetic poetry polite Pope Pope's practice praise present quotes Rambler Rasselas readers recognizes reference represented respondent rhetorical satiric sensible Shakespeare share social society Sterne Sterne's style suggests Swift Tale things thought throughout tion topics train of ideas Treatise Trim Tristram Shandy truth uncle Toby Uncle Toby's understanding universal W. K. Wimsatt Walter's words writing
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Página 7 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
Página 18 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Página 45 - This day, black Omens threat the brightest Fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Página 53 - Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? — where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Página 46 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 54 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Página 54 - Oh ! while along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame ; Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...
Página 53 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heaven and earth, and mortal and divine ; Sees that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below ; Learns from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end in love of God and love of man.
Página 125 - Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.