The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Penguin Books, 1962 |
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Page 92
... Death . A second Dance of Death passed over Europe . A taste for the macabre permeated French drama of the period as well as the Jacobean drama . The skeleton became a decorative element of Italian mortuary monuments and the grim ...
... Death . A second Dance of Death passed over Europe . A taste for the macabre permeated French drama of the period as well as the Jacobean drama . The skeleton became a decorative element of Italian mortuary monuments and the grim ...
Page 103
... death which are to follow . The second stanza depends on the reader's knowledge of the meaning , in alchemy , of ' quintessence ' - the fifth , and therefore extremely pure , distilla- tion : Love has ' pressed out ' A quintessence even ...
... death which are to follow . The second stanza depends on the reader's knowledge of the meaning , in alchemy , of ' quintessence ' - the fifth , and therefore extremely pure , distilla- tion : Love has ' pressed out ' A quintessence even ...
Page 236
... Death's Image , left my troubled brest , By something liker Death possest . My eyes with Tears did uncommanded flow , And on my Soul hung the dull weight Of some Intolerable Fate . What Bell was that ? Ah me ! Too much I know . He gives ...
... Death's Image , left my troubled brest , By something liker Death possest . My eyes with Tears did uncommanded flow , And on my Soul hung the dull weight Of some Intolerable Fate . What Bell was that ? Ah me ! Too much I know . He gives ...
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