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Page 51
... sense of rich satis- faction in the crushing of hubris . Johnson's poem is not without a sense of pathos for the innocent naivety of Charles's military pride ; for the ' blushing ' humiliation of Charles ( 1. 210 ) or of a now humbler ...
... sense of rich satis- faction in the crushing of hubris . Johnson's poem is not without a sense of pathos for the innocent naivety of Charles's military pride ; for the ' blushing ' humiliation of Charles ( 1. 210 ) or of a now humbler ...
Page 59
... sense of kinship with the outcast.2 It is a sense which emerges artistically in the Life of Savage above all ; with an uncritical warmth in Savage's cause , unique in The Lives of the Poets . The same sense of kinship with the ...
... sense of kinship with the outcast.2 It is a sense which emerges artistically in the Life of Savage above all ; with an uncritical warmth in Savage's cause , unique in The Lives of the Poets . The same sense of kinship with the ...
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... sense of the duty of work , and his own resistance to the demands he made of himself . Rasselas in a sense glorifies that resistance . Paradoxically , though itself a created fable , it preaches against both the duty to create , and ...
... sense of the duty of work , and his own resistance to the demands he made of himself . Rasselas in a sense glorifies that resistance . Paradoxically , though itself a created fable , it preaches against both the duty to create , and ...
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surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
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