A Guide to English Literature: From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Cassell, 1961 A Russian couple wanted a child so much that they made one out of snow. |
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... Court connexions , was unusual in spending between four and six months a year in London , but his diary gives a typical round of pleasures . Besides swimming and boating on the Thames , dicing and card - playing and going a - maying in ...
... Court connexions , was unusual in spending between four and six months a year in London , but his diary gives a typical round of pleasures . Besides swimming and boating on the Thames , dicing and card - playing and going a - maying in ...
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... Court and get some office as being the only rising way ' . The Court took its tone from the personal character and tastes of the sovereign . In this period , therefore , the machinery remained the same the royal household with its ...
... Court and get some office as being the only rising way ' . The Court took its tone from the personal character and tastes of the sovereign . In this period , therefore , the machinery remained the same the royal household with its ...
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... Court life had been stylized in the elaborate ritual of the cult of the Virgin Queen . Under her successor nothing quite took the place of this , with all its associated poetry of idealistic love ; James I's Court seems to have lost ...
... Court life had been stylized in the elaborate ritual of the cult of the Virgin Queen . Under her successor nothing quite took the place of this , with all its associated poetry of idealistic love ; James I's Court seems to have lost ...
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Andrew Marvell Anglican argument baroque Ben Jonson Browne Bunyan C. H. Herford Cambridge Carew Cavalier characteristic Charles Christian Church Civil classical common conceits contemporary Court Cowley Crashaw criticism death divine Donne's dramatic effect elegies Elizabethan emotional England English Literature Essays experience expression F. R. Leavis feeling Garden gentry Grierson Herbert Grierson History Hobbes human imagery intellectual Jacobean John Donne Jonson kind L. C. Knights language Leviathan literary London lyric manner Marvell Marvell's medieval Metaphysical Poets Milton mind moral nature Oxford pamphlets Paradise Lost passages passion period philosophy Pilgrim's Progress poem poetic poetry political prose reader Religio Medici religion religious Renaissance Restoration Royal Royalist satire sense Sermons Seventeenth Century Shakespeare Sir Herbert Sir Thomas social society songs soul spirit stanza style Suckling suggests T. S. Eliot theme theology thou thought tion tone tradition universe Vaughan verse vols Waller whole words writing wrote