Samuel Johnson's theme of themes is expressed in ___: the dangerous but all-pervasive power of wishful thinking, the feverish intrusion of desires and hopes that distort reality and lead to false expectations.
A. Rasselas
B. The Lives of the Poets
C. “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
D. Essay on Man
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____'s “Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” balances Latinate phrases with living English speech, and the learning of a scholar with a common humanity that everyone can share.
A. John Donne
B. Thomas Gray
C. Samuel Johnson
D. John Milton
_____'s The Pilgrim’s Progress deas with the pilgrimage of a man named Christian, who said goodbye to his wife and children, and started his journey from the city of destruction to the celestial heaven.
A. John Donne
B. John Milton
C. Jonathan Swift
D. John Bunyan
In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ____.
A. aristocratic class
B. enterprising landlords
C. rising bourgeoisie
D. hard-working people
Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver’s Travels?
A. Lilliput
Brobdingnag
C. Laputa
D. Houyhnhnms