Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... human being . What was it that had triumphed over the defects of the Faerie Queene ? Why had it been such a prolonged happiness to read it , and why did it leave so strong a sense of a permanent enrichment of one's life ? There can be ...
... human being . What was it that had triumphed over the defects of the Faerie Queene ? Why had it been such a prolonged happiness to read it , and why did it leave so strong a sense of a permanent enrichment of one's life ? There can be ...
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... human body , with its wonderful structure , and the cook " cald Concoction , " and the library where Prince Arthur stops for a whole canto to read Geoffrey of Monmouth , and that other house of the three Aristotelian ladies ( who ...
... human body , with its wonderful structure , and the cook " cald Concoction , " and the library where Prince Arthur stops for a whole canto to read Geoffrey of Monmouth , and that other house of the three Aristotelian ladies ( who ...
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... human woman , " true as touch " ( i . 3 , 2 ) , capable of tears and terrors and forgiveness . Britomart , again , is a sort of Jeanne d'Arc , dressed in knight's armour to protect her honour , as she rides the world seeking the lover ...
... human woman , " true as touch " ( i . 3 , 2 ) , capable of tears and terrors and forgiveness . Britomart , again , is a sort of Jeanne d'Arc , dressed in knight's armour to protect her honour , as she rides the world seeking the lover ...
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... human birth and the body . Therof it comes that these faire soules , which have The most resemblance of that heavenly light , Frame to themselves most beautifull and brave Their fleshly bowre , most fit for their delight , And the ...
... human birth and the body . Therof it comes that these faire soules , which have The most resemblance of that heavenly light , Frame to themselves most beautifull and brave Their fleshly bowre , most fit for their delight , And the ...
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... human capacity can soar to . . . . God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church , even to the reforming of Reformation it self ; what does he then but reveal Himself to his servants , and as his manner is , first to ...
... human capacity can soar to . . . . God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church , even to the reforming of Reformation it self ; what does he then but reveal Himself to his servants , and as his manner is , first to ...
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