Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithSchuman, 1950 - 319 pages A study of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth century physician who was deeply concerned with his own faith at a time of religious strife and of new interest in science, and the remarkable age in which he lived. |
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Page 21
... Mind and Style James Russell Lowell thought Browne " our most imag- inative mind since Shakespeare , ' " 18 and indeed he often approaches the level of poetry : I am sure there is a common Spirit that plays within us , yet makes no part ...
... Mind and Style James Russell Lowell thought Browne " our most imag- inative mind since Shakespeare , ' " 18 and indeed he often approaches the level of poetry : I am sure there is a common Spirit that plays within us , yet makes no part ...
Page 120
... mind to the works of Browne's own contemporaries , and its style is enlivened by echoes of Rabelais , of Dante , of the early Church Fathers , and of the Elizabethans . It was written at a period when English prose was rich , flexible ...
... mind to the works of Browne's own contemporaries , and its style is enlivened by echoes of Rabelais , of Dante , of the early Church Fathers , and of the Elizabethans . It was written at a period when English prose was rich , flexible ...
Page 266
... mind , his long medical experience , and his versatile interests found rich expres- sion . It is comprehensive in matter , graceful in manner . Walter Pater , the nineteenth - century Epicurean , de- lighted in its subtleties and ...
... mind , his long medical experience , and his versatile interests found rich expres- sion . It is comprehensive in matter , graceful in manner . Walter Pater , the nineteenth - century Epicurean , de- lighted in its subtleties and ...
Contents
From Cheapside to Winchester | 2 |
Residence in Yorkshire | 90 |
Civil StrifeBrownes Second | 125 |
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