A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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Page 108
... 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 ...
Page 120
... 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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... example , to reinforce one of his main themes , the unity of the human race ( united in one way by its fall in Adam and in another by its elevation in Christ ) , and to establish a strong contrast between human and angelic guilt ...
... example , to reinforce one of his main themes , the unity of the human race ( united in one way by its fall in Adam and in another by its elevation in Christ ) , and to establish a strong contrast between human and angelic guilt ...
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