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... 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 95
... 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 ...
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... 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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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