Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithCollier Books, 1961 - 251 pages A study of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth century physician who was deeply concerned with his own faith at a time of religious strife and of new interest in science, and the remarkable age in which he lived. |
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... Mind and Style James Russell Lowell thought Browne " our most imagina- tive mind since Shakespeare , " 18 and indeed he often ap- proaches the level of poetry : I am sure there is a common Spirit that plays within us , yet makes no part ...
... Mind and Style James Russell Lowell thought Browne " our most imagina- tive mind since Shakespeare , " 18 and indeed he often ap- proaches the level of poetry : I am sure there is a common Spirit that plays within us , yet makes no part ...
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... mind , there started up immediately so many images before him , that he lost one by grasping another . ” Ben Jonson's comments on Shakespeare are similar : “ An excellent Phantsie , brave notions , and gentle expressions , wherein hee ...
... mind , there started up immediately so many images before him , that he lost one by grasping another . ” Ben Jonson's comments on Shakespeare are similar : “ An excellent Phantsie , brave notions , and gentle expressions , wherein hee ...
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... mind to the works of Browne's own contemporaries , and its style is enlivened by echoes of Rabelais , of Dante , of the early Church Fathers , and of the Elizabethans . It was written at a period when English prose was rich , flexible ...
... mind to the works of Browne's own contemporaries , and its style is enlivened by echoes of Rabelais , of Dante , of the early Church Fathers , and of the Elizabethans . It was written at a period when English prose was rich , flexible ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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