A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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... tion and Election deduced from the Scriptures . The convinced Puritan emerged from the despair of his doubt and remorse with a sense of salvation and of special insight into the ways of God , leading to claims to infallibility . There ...
... tion and Election deduced from the Scriptures . The convinced Puritan emerged from the despair of his doubt and remorse with a sense of salvation and of special insight into the ways of God , leading to claims to infallibility . There ...
Page 120
... tion ' ) . By these means Browne creates a deliberate , architectonic effect , as of a lofty vault filled with reverberating echoes . But this very deliberation produces a distancing of the emotion ; the funeral urns have somehow been ...
... tion ' ) . By these means Browne creates a deliberate , architectonic effect , as of a lofty vault filled with reverberating echoes . But this very deliberation produces a distancing of the emotion ; the funeral urns have somehow been ...
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... tion which would prove an intellectual conclusion and bring God within the framework of the rational universe . He uses the word with the overtones it acquired from New Testament usage , where it im- plies a divine , not a human or ...
... tion which would prove an intellectual conclusion and bring God within the framework of the rational universe . He uses the word with the overtones it acquired from New Testament usage , where it im- plies a divine , not a human or ...
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