A Guide to English Literature: From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Cassell, 1962 A Russian couple wanted a child so much that they made one out of snow. |
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... authority of earlier writers , on deduction from traditional theory , or on the ingenious working out of analogies , rather than on observation and experiment . The road to learning was still the traditional one of grammar , rhetoric ...
... authority of earlier writers , on deduction from traditional theory , or on the ingenious working out of analogies , rather than on observation and experiment . The road to learning was still the traditional one of grammar , rhetoric ...
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... authority over his children ; Noah divided that authority among all his sons , from whom it descended to modern rulers . How- ever fantastic his own arguments , Filmer sometimes scores in expos- ing the absurdities of those who ...
... authority over his children ; Noah divided that authority among all his sons , from whom it descended to modern rulers . How- ever fantastic his own arguments , Filmer sometimes scores in expos- ing the absurdities of those who ...
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... authority , he thought , must , in a stable society , rest entirely in the hands of those who own the land . To distribute authority more widely he would therefore abolish primo- geniture and fix a limit of £ 2,000 to the annual value ...
... authority , he thought , must , in a stable society , rest entirely in the hands of those who own the land . To distribute authority more widely he would therefore abolish primo- geniture and fix a limit of £ 2,000 to the annual value ...
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Andrew Marvell Anglican argument baroque Ben Jonson Browne Bunyan C. H. Herford Cambridge Carew Cavalier Charles Christian Church Civil classical common conceits contemporary Court Cowley Crashaw criticism death divine Donne's dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard effect elegies Elizabethan England Essays experience expression F. R. Leavis feeling Garden gentry Grierson Haller Herbert Grierson History Hobbes Holy human imagery intellectual Jacobean John Donne Jonson kind L. C. Knights language literary London lyric manner Marvell Marvell's medieval Metaphysical Poets Milton mind nature Oxford pamphlets Paradise Lost Parliament passages passion period philosophy Pilgrim's Progress poem poetic poetry political prose Puritan Revolution 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 whole writing wrote