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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... example , the way in which each writer , according to the Meta- physical fashion , ' played ' with an idea . The Garden of Cyrus ( 1658 ) , by Sir Thomas Browne , is a fanciful dissertation on quincunxes ( that is , the arrangement of ...
... example , the way in which each writer , according to the Meta- physical fashion , ' played ' with an idea . The Garden of Cyrus ( 1658 ) , by Sir Thomas Browne , is a fanciful dissertation on quincunxes ( that is , the arrangement of ...
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... example , the actual sensation conveyed by the verbs that follow ' corrasive ' - ' breath'd , and exhal'd away ' - is heightened by the subsequent concrete reference to ' consumption ' and the active preposition ' away from ' itself ...
... example , the actual sensation conveyed by the verbs that follow ' corrasive ' - ' breath'd , and exhal'd away ' - is heightened by the subsequent concrete reference to ' consumption ' and the active preposition ' away from ' itself ...
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... example , the vogue of eccen- tricity , practised with varying degrees of self - consciousness , by such writers as Thomas Coryat ( 1577 ? -1617 ) , Robert Burton ( 1577-1640 ) and Sir Thomas Urquhart ( 1611-60 ) - the pedantic nature ...
... example , the vogue of eccen- tricity , practised with varying degrees of self - consciousness , by such writers as Thomas Coryat ( 1577 ? -1617 ) , Robert Burton ( 1577-1640 ) and Sir Thomas Urquhart ( 1611-60 ) - the pedantic nature ...
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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