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...Roger D. Lund The College of William & Mary 2003 The Ghosts of Epigram, False Wit, and the Augustan Mode Roger D. Lund Le Moyne College Despite the efforts of Augustan poets...

... a collection of pornographic poems at the close of the second volume under the title The Cabinet of Love , Curll subtly created a false association between Rochester and its content. Providing a bibliographical analysis of The Works , this essay traces the shifting ways in which Rochester and his poems were...

... will look at how three eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Hannah Cowley’s The Town Before You (1795), Henry Seymour Conway’s False Ap- Eighteenth-Century Life 25 (Winter 2001): 1–16 © 2001 by The College of William & Mary ECL25102-001-Elfe.p65 1...

... with hyperbole, would be the fi rst to discourage this sort of thoughtless cant. The word crisis, in fact, appears nowhere in his original published writings except The False Alarm (1770), where it is used ironically: “‘Alarming crisis,’ ” notes Donald Greene, “was one of the favourite expressions...

... and rigor of philosophy, entailing, as I have noted, a view of philosophy as much as a way of life as a set of doctrines, accounts for both philosophies’ extraordinary fertility for intellectual satire, which is directed primarily at philosophy’s false friends and clueless followers. In other words...

... Street,” the second volumes (1743 and 1744) for “J. Lyon, in Ludgate Street.” The inconsistency in initials and the imprecise location—Ludgate Street was long and populated with many booksellers—indicates a false or misleading imprint.39 The “W. Webb” that appears to take over the Foundling Hospi...

... that one contempo- rary critic claimed that Fielding could only have written when he was drunk) introduces us to a prototype Justice Thrasher and Billy Booth. False wills and 86   Eighteenth-Century Life false siblings abound, and one plot is resolved, as is Amelia’s, by recognition through...

... to include in his volume had been no easy task: it had been necessary, he explained, “to separate their writings from the works of others, amongst which they have lain scattered; to reject such as have been falsely and injuriously ascribed to them, and to gather into a body all those others...

... suitable to the human race,”1 and that, accordingly, the ideal philosophy is one that combines and reflects both the sentimental and rational parts of human nature. Hume’s considered view is that philosophers rarely achieve such a balance, led astray as they are by strength of passion into a false philos...

... nationalism, medical quackery, and false prognostication not by mounting serious arguments against them, but rather by pulling them into an upside-down world where nothing functions correctly. Again and again, the text dissolves into ridiculousness; anything we may be tempted to read seriously evaporates...

... a pattern, an intelligible design (if only retrospectively). Such plots conclude, as Molesworth neatly puts in, not simply with an “end” but with a satisfy- ing “ending.” But since Enlightenment reason disenchanted the world, we can no longer rationally believe in such teleology. Thus, it is a “false...

... more damnable than those who would subvert authority in accordance with some sincerely adhered to political principle. Stiffening his tone still further, Constitution concludes that most of what is celebrated as moderation is in reality mere “Dissimula- tion” and “Falseness.”1...

... then turns to England to see what all of this will mean for our understanding of literature in the eighteenth cen- tury. He claims that the most essential element for Menippean satire is that it be an attack on “a false and threatening orthodoxy” (xi), as opposed, presum- ably, to ordinary satire...

... in their Poems” (Works, 14:350).8 However, he had his own and his son’s nativities cast by Elias Ashmole.9 In Astraea Redux, he scoffs at alchemical wizardry and its false claims to have created gold, which, when tested, “shuns the Mint” (Works, 1:26, line 162), yet, as we shall see, he uses alchemical...

..., Mockmode, Roebuck muses, ruefully, that “were [he] lawyer enough, . . . [he] cou'd bring in a false Deed to cheat [Mockmode] of his estate.” He never becomes lawyer enough to achieve this, though the play's secondary, impecunious authorial surrogate, the playwright Lyrick, has more success in this vein...

... in which the nation may par- ticipate collectively, including pride, cruelty, extravagance, false patriotism, and a willingness to believe itself the only nation for whom the Providence of God exerts itself (311). By naming such things, Barbauld indicates the need for deep reform, but as a moderate, she...

..., don’t we always say, “So and so has made a false step?” JOURDAIN: We do say that, don’t we? DANCE MASTER: And what causes a false step but not knowing how to dance?  28 Monsieur Jourdain is thus gently coerced into continuing his lessons with the dance master lest he make a false...

... Forgery    4 3 substantial revision of Jerome McGann’s now thoroughly worn, New Histori- cist battle cry of the “Romantic ideology.” McGann largely defined Romantic ideology as a form of false consciousness that afflicted both the poetry of the period, and the criticism it generated, whereby modernity...

.... The case of Wollstonecraft is similar, though complicated by her sus- tained engagement with the culture of sensibility and with Rousseau. As we know, she wishes to expose what she sees as superficial, false, ideologi- cal assumptions about gender difference...

... Meiner’s entire project, . . . stating flatly that the premises were false. Europeans were not superior to the other peoples of the world” (262). But on the very next page, he writes, “Forster agreed that Europeans were superior” (263). It is not always clear where Carhart positions the scholarship...