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Late British Literature Neoclassicism
Intro, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Addison and Steele, Johnson, Boswell, Grey, and Goldsmith
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
09/25/2010

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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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1660
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Date of the Great Plague
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1665
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Date of the Great Fire
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1666
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Date of the Glorious (or bloodless) Revolution
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1688
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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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An Essay on Man (Pope)
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the work whose goal is to "enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality"
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The Spectator
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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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Rasselas (Johnson)
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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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Rasselas (Johnson)
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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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