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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... example , the way in which each writer , according to the Meta- physical fashion , ' played ' with an idea . The Garden of Cyrus ( 1658 ) , by Sir Thomas Browne , is a fanciful dissertation on quincunxes ( that is , the arrangement of ...
... example , the way in which each writer , according to the Meta- physical fashion , ' played ' with an idea . The Garden of Cyrus ( 1658 ) , by Sir Thomas Browne , is a fanciful dissertation on quincunxes ( that is , the arrangement of ...
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... example , the actual sensation conveyed by the verbs that follow ' corrasive ' – ' breath'd , and exhal'd away ' is heightened by the subsequent concrete reference to ' consumption ' and the active preposition ' away from ' itself adds ...
... example , the actual sensation conveyed by the verbs that follow ' corrasive ' – ' breath'd , and exhal'd away ' is heightened by the subsequent concrete reference to ' consumption ' and the active preposition ' away from ' itself adds ...
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... example , was subordinated to a purely intellectual purpose ; he deployed his various figures of speech , as we can see in The Advance- ment of Learning , not in order to express the whole range of his feelings about the case he is ...
... example , was subordinated to a purely intellectual purpose ; he deployed his various figures of speech , as we can see in The Advance- ment of Learning , not in order to express the whole range of his feelings about the case he is ...
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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