Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
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d and propagate
that ridiculous Opinion of the Eternity of the World, and a
fatal invincible Chain of Things, _which, it seems, is now most
commonly made use of to destroy the_ Faith, as our lewd Plays
are to corrupt the Morals of the Nation: _An Opinion, big
with more_ Absurdities than Transubstantiation _it self, and
of far more_ fatal Consequence, _if receiv'd and believ'd: For
besides its extremely weakening, if not destroying, the_ Belief of
the Being and Providence of God, it utterly takes away any
sort of Freedom in Humane Actions, reduces Mankind beneath
the Brute Creation; perfectly excuses the greatest Villanies in this World, and entirely vacates all Retribution _hereafter. One wou'd wonder with what Face or Conscience
such a_ Sett _of Men shou'd hope to be treated by the Rules of_
Civility, when they themselves break through those of Society,
and
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