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| name the four titles of the 18th century |
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| Neoclassicism, Enlightenment, Augustan Age, Age of Reason |
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| name the characteristics of the 18th century |
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| optimism, cosmopolitanism, rationalism, deism |
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| Date of the restoration of Charles II |
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| Date of the Glorious (or bloodless) Revolution |
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| theme of St. Cecelia's Day |
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| the power of music to direct the passions |
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| what sort of people were in the Scriblerus Club? |
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| Tory satirists (such as Swift) |
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| what work (or author) says "Some great misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend" |
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| "Verses on the death of Swift" (Swift) |
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| What work (or author) says: "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth" |
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| "Gulliver's Travels" (Swift) |
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| what work (or author) says nature is "at once the source, the end, and test of art" |
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| An Essay on Criticism (Pope) |
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| What work (or author) says, "True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." |
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| An essay on criticism (Pope) |
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| what work (or author) says, "to err is human, to forgive divine." |
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| An Essay on Criticism (Pope) |
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| what work (or author) says, "All Nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear: Whatever IS, is RIGHT." |
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| the work whose goal is to "enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality" |
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| What is the theme of the Rambler? |
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| the vanity of human wishes |
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| What work says, "truth is always found where it is earnestly sought." |
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| what work says, "Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed" |
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| what work says "the paths of glory lead but to the grave." |
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| Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard (Gray) |
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| what work says, "sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn" |
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| The Deserted Village (Goldsmith) |
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