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... learning and literature , science and philosophy , took an interest in exploration , and wrote verses in their leisure . Among the nobility , the Earl of Newcastle patronized poets and dramatists , wrote verses and treatises on horses ...
... learning and literature , science and philosophy , took an interest in exploration , and wrote verses in their leisure . Among the nobility , the Earl of Newcastle patronized poets and dramatists , wrote verses and treatises on horses ...
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... learning and thought , English at the beginning of the seventeenth century had to compete with Latin , still the uni- versal language . Bacon planned his great unfinished Instauratio Magna in Latin , and Hobbes used Latin for De Cive ...
... learning and thought , English at the beginning of the seventeenth century had to compete with Latin , still the uni- versal language . Bacon planned his great unfinished Instauratio Magna in Latin , and Hobbes used Latin for De Cive ...
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... learning . In the one case a curious and roving mind delights in illustrating an argument with all kinds of unexpected references , examples , and allusions and in embellishing the theme with numer- ous quotations . But it is properly ...
... learning . In the one case a curious and roving mind delights in illustrating an argument with all kinds of unexpected references , examples , and allusions and in embellishing the theme with numer- ous quotations . But it is properly ...
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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