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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... Soul ' ( emotion and reason ) . The soul ' holds the bal- ance ' or has the power to decide , and its actions and opinions are ' weighed ' by the demands of pleasure . Yet behind the antithesis there lies harmony . The replies of the ...
... Soul ' ( emotion and reason ) . The soul ' holds the bal- ance ' or has the power to decide , and its actions and opinions are ' weighed ' by the demands of pleasure . Yet behind the antithesis there lies harmony . The replies of the ...
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... Soul does fence The Batteries of alluring Sense , And Heaven views it with delight . The word ' fence ' refers back to the ' ballance ' of the opening of the poem , but also includes the sense of the noun which meant not only ' a ...
... Soul does fence The Batteries of alluring Sense , And Heaven views it with delight . The word ' fence ' refers back to the ' ballance ' of the opening of the poem , but also includes the sense of the noun which meant not only ' a ...
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... soul is described as both ' extended ' , drawn out to unite itself with the other soul , and ' fixed ' , kept firm and stable because its attention is constantly directed towards the other . The soul is ' fixed in ' the loved person so ...
... soul is described as both ' extended ' , drawn out to unite itself with the other soul , and ' fixed ' , kept firm and stable because its attention is constantly directed towards the other . The soul is ' fixed in ' the loved person so ...
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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