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Page 55
... course quite different : he believed in the Christian scheme of things and rejected any kind of optimistic deism ) . Pope at least conceded that there was ' partial evil ' , that the system of order in the universe operated through ...
... course quite different : he believed in the Christian scheme of things and rejected any kind of optimistic deism ) . Pope at least conceded that there was ' partial evil ' , that the system of order in the universe operated through ...
Page 93
... course deliberately aimless and exaggerated , and the result is parody , yet even here we cannot help feeling that there is an appropriate mood to which these objects point , and the mixture of the exotic and the fam- iliar achieves a ...
... course deliberately aimless and exaggerated , and the result is parody , yet even here we cannot help feeling that there is an appropriate mood to which these objects point , and the mixture of the exotic and the fam- iliar achieves a ...
Page 213
... course there are intrusive moments in some works of literature where the reader simply recoils and is unable to move beyond to the total pattern of meaning because of his hostility to some specific attitude or belief revealed explicitly ...
... course there are intrusive moments in some works of literature where the reader simply recoils and is unable to move beyond to the total pattern of meaning because of his hostility to some specific attitude or belief revealed explicitly ...
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