In the XVIII century most of the stories written by English were tragic. Most of them had to do with pain ,death and values. They exaggerated reality in most of them, were the agency was supernatural and the dialogue represented real life. .
In a stories called " preface to Shakespeare" they show us a perfect example of how these people thought and what were real values to them. It shows us what was the beauty in the writing, of the XVIII century. Shakespeare for example excelled in accommodating his sentiments to real life, and write about those feelings in a more inspiring way were life was misrepresented and language depraved. Passion was a cause of happiness. The drama that Shakespeare shows in his stories is the mirror to real life hidden behind the characters, the settings , the story. Human emotion and nature were other beauties that were written about in this century buy Shakespeare. .
We can also see many of these values in the brief comments Pope gives us about languages, and comments on life. In one of "Popes Epigrams" he tells us that one of the biggest values to the XVIII century was the noble work of god to create an honest man. It means that those we were honest were righteous in society and was perfectly created by god. In another one of his comments he proposes that making a mistake is only human and forgiving is divine. This means that we can all make mistakes because we are all humans but not all of us forgive, so to be forgiven is something delightful for the heart and mind. .
I could keep naming a lot of Popes epigrams and giving the meaning of them but I think that with these I have mention we can realize that honesty, nobleness, and perfection were many of the beauties written about in this century, were most of the writing was catastrophic and sad.
