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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... human poten- tialities was necessarily followed by a sharper sense of the contrast with the unchanging limitations of human existence , and that signs of this kind of disenchantment are frequent in the early seventeenth century . In ...
... human poten- tialities was necessarily followed by a sharper sense of the contrast with the unchanging limitations of human existence , and that signs of this kind of disenchantment are frequent in the early seventeenth century . In ...
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... human pilgrim progressing towards Heaven through a series of vivid encounters with human beings ) ; nor by Shakespeare ( who , in presenting a profound study of human char- acter , abstains from personal moral judgements ) . Even the ...
... human pilgrim progressing towards Heaven through a series of vivid encounters with human beings ) ; nor by Shakespeare ( who , in presenting a profound study of human char- acter , abstains from personal moral judgements ) . Even the ...
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... human race ( united in one way by its fall in Adam and in another by its elevation in Christ ) , and to establish a strong contrast between human and angelic guilt , between the bitterness and recrimination in which Adam indulges , and ...
... human race ( united in one way by its fall in Adam and in another by its elevation in Christ ) , and to establish a strong contrast between human and angelic guilt , between the bitterness and recrimination in which Adam indulges , and ...
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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