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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... Nature's Priest , And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended . . . . - Intimations of Immortality But their ... Nature , not the God of Nature ' . Vaughan , then , is more interested in natural creation , in the nature of the ...
... Nature's Priest , And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended . . . . - Intimations of Immortality But their ... Nature , not the God of Nature ' . Vaughan , then , is more interested in natural creation , in the nature of the ...
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... nature . The gods themselves are shown finding solace in nature for frustrated sexual passion , and it is even hinted , in a characteristically witty paradox , that the quiet of nature was what they were really seeking : Apollo hunted ...
... nature . The gods themselves are shown finding solace in nature for frustrated sexual passion , and it is even hinted , in a characteristically witty paradox , that the quiet of nature was what they were really seeking : Apollo hunted ...
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... nature's permanent con- quest over time that he himself had temporarily attained through nature . By its sweet smells and sounds the sundial measures time more effectively than the sun itself . Time has no power over the flowers , herbs ...
... nature's permanent con- quest over time that he himself had temporarily attained through nature . By its sweet smells and sounds the sundial measures time more effectively than the sun itself . Time has no power over the flowers , herbs ...
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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