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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... argument . Many of these movements of thought and style combine in the political and philosophical writings of Hobbes . As a philosopher , he carries further Bacon's empiricism , applying it to human psychology and developing a theory ...
... argument . Many of these movements of thought and style combine in the political and philosophical writings of Hobbes . As a philosopher , he carries further Bacon's empiricism , applying it to human psychology and developing a theory ...
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... argument . He was a conscious artist , and his avoidance of con- ventional fluency of movement and courtliness of diction must be assumed to be deliberate . - As with the lyric stanza , so in his satires and elegies with the couplet ...
... argument . He was a conscious artist , and his avoidance of con- ventional fluency of movement and courtliness of diction must be assumed to be deliberate . - As with the lyric stanza , so in his satires and elegies with the couplet ...
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... argument . The argument is not so much stated as embodied in the verse , as in the lines on hope in the second stanza , with their sensitive use of rhythm , rhyme , imagery , and alliteration . There is a similar kind of philosophical ...
... argument . The argument is not so much stated as embodied in the verse , as in the lines on hope in the second stanza , with their sensitive use of rhythm , rhyme , imagery , and alliteration . There is a similar kind of philosophical ...
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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