✍ Scribed by T. F. Wharton (auth.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Life: ‘vain imaginations’....Pages 1-10
Work: the ‘scheme of life’....Pages 11-19
Irene: ‘gleams of reason’ and ‘clouds of passion’....Pages 20-28
London: ‘surly virtue’ and ‘pleasing dream’....Pages 29-42
The Vanity of Human Wishes....Pages 43-56
The Rambler: ‘those that aspire to the name of authors’....Pages 57-73
The Idler: the ‘voluntary dream’....Pages 74-88
Rasselas: the ‘phantoms of hope’....Pages 89-118
A Journey to the Western Islands: ‘imagination’ and ‘idea’....Pages 119-138
The Literary Criticism: ‘propriety of thought’....Pages 139-156
Levet: ‘hope’s delusive mine’....Pages 157-164
Back Matter....Pages 165-190
British and Irish Literature; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Literary Theory
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