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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... contemporary , ' those whose hawks and dogs flew and run as well as his own , and those who were able to speak as much reason as himself . ' Hunting and scholarship were his dominant interests . In many ways shrewd , good - humoured and ...
... contemporary , ' those whose hawks and dogs flew and run as well as his own , and those who were able to speak as much reason as himself . ' Hunting and scholarship were his dominant interests . In many ways shrewd , good - humoured and ...
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... running down ' . It affected the imagery of many contemporary writers ( e . g . Donne in his poems A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day and The Second Anniversarie ) . ΙΙΟ death must be the Lucina * of life , and PART THREE.
... running down ' . It affected the imagery of many contemporary writers ( e . g . Donne in his poems A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day and The Second Anniversarie ) . ΙΙΟ death must be the Lucina * of life , and PART THREE.
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... contemporary of Waller and already practising the kind of literary decorum that one finds in the grandiose elegies and complimentary poems of the Restoration . The elegy On the Death of Mr William Hervey is scarcely Metaphysical at all ...
... contemporary of Waller and already practising the kind of literary decorum that one finds in the grandiose elegies and complimentary poems of the Restoration . The elegy On the Death of Mr William Hervey is scarcely Metaphysical at all ...
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