“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.” is an excerpt taken from _____ by ______. It means that ______.
A. The Rape of the Lock; Alexander Pope; the uncertainty of human beings’ place in the universe.
B. An Essay on Criticism; Alexander Pope; the great power of the human mind to perceive the elusive in the universe.
C. An Essay on Man; Alexander Pope; the limitation of human perception and man’s humble place in the universe.
D. The Dunciad; Alexander Pope; the futility of cultivating perception due to an unknowable universe.
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The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of______.
A. Philosophy.
B. Reason.
Creativity.
D. Classicism.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by_____ is taken as a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard School.
Alexander Pope.
B. Henry Fielding.
C. Thomas Gray.
D. Robert Browning.
In the 18th century, heroic couplet as a poetic medium reached its perfection in the hands of______.
A. Jonathan Swift.
B. Thomas Gray.
C. Alexander Pope.
D. Richard Steele.
Which of the following concerns NOT the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century?
A. To promote reason, rationality and science.
B. To enlighten people with modern philosophical and artistic ideas.
C. To hold the belief that human beings are unlimited, with infinite potential for intellectual development.
D. To hold the belief that human beings are limited, dualistic, imperfect, and yet capable of rationality and perfection through education.