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... learning to solve these problems , particularly in the width of reference and allusion permitted by epic simile , in the sonorous sweep of his verse and the sustained elevation of his style . All man's learning and achievement is ...
... learning to solve these problems , particularly in the width of reference and allusion permitted by epic simile , in the sonorous sweep of his verse and the sustained elevation of his style . All man's learning and achievement is ...
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... learning and thought , English at the beginning of the seventeenth century had to compete with Latin , still the uni- versal language . Bacon planned his great unfinished Instauratio Magna in Latin , and Hobbes used Latin for De Cive ...
... learning and thought , English at the beginning of the seventeenth century had to compete with Latin , still the uni- versal language . Bacon planned his great unfinished Instauratio Magna in Latin , and Hobbes used Latin for De Cive ...
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... learning . In the one case a curious and roving mind delights in illustrating an argument with all kinds of unexpected references , examples , and allusions and in embellishing the theme with numer- ous quotations . But it is properly ...
... learning . In the one case a curious and roving mind delights in illustrating an argument with all kinds of unexpected references , examples , and allusions and in embellishing the theme with numer- ous quotations . But it is properly ...
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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