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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... continued , though at a diminishing rate , and brought , as before , opportunities for the adventurous and difficul- ties for the conservative all along the social scale . The most dynamic point in the economy was still in foreign trade ...
... continued , though at a diminishing rate , and brought , as before , opportunities for the adventurous and difficul- ties for the conservative all along the social scale . The most dynamic point in the economy was still in foreign trade ...
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... continued , and there was increasingly a private or coterie quality in the Court ; Van Dyck's portraits ( con- fined almost entirely to the Court circle ) reveal , if nothing more , the way in which Charles and his Court liked to be ...
... continued , and there was increasingly a private or coterie quality in the Court ; Van Dyck's portraits ( con- fined almost entirely to the Court circle ) reveal , if nothing more , the way in which Charles and his Court liked to be ...
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... continued Convivium Philosophale ' . How far the absentee landlordism and the decay of ' hospitality ' , of which both government and moralists com- plained , had gone it is impossible to say . Probably it was most marked in the home ...
... continued Convivium Philosophale ' . How far the absentee landlordism and the decay of ' hospitality ' , of which both government and moralists com- plained , had gone it is impossible to say . Probably it was most marked in the home ...
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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