Poets and PuritansRoutledge, 2020 M11 5 - 336 pages Originally published in 1915, the essays in this book deal with 9 English writers – as diverse in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans and men who were neither. The book examines each writer in his historical and social context – facing problems in art or religion and life in general. |
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... eyes, and you will say that they are rather like owls than eagles ... no more ado about caps and surplices: Mr Cartwright quite forgotten.” 1 Here we have the Cambridge life of Spenser,—French and Italian poets, hardily prescribed ...
... eyes, and you will say that they are rather like owls than eagles ... no more ado about caps and surplices: Mr Cartwright quite forgotten.” 1 Here we have the Cambridge life of Spenser,—French and Italian poets, hardily prescribed ...
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... eye on the world around him and sees “realmes and nations run awry,” and he undertakes to reduce them to equality again— 1 Froude, English Seamen, p. 8. 2 18 August 1572. Were it not good that wrong were then surceast, And from the most ...
... eye on the world around him and sees “realmes and nations run awry,” and he undertakes to reduce them to equality again— 1 Froude, English Seamen, p. 8. 2 18 August 1572. Were it not good that wrong were then surceast, And from the most ...
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... eye (vi., intr.). 1 Cf. Montaigne. Essays, i. ch. 30. This discoverie of so infinit and vast a conntrie seemeth worthy great consideration. I wot not whether I can warrant my selfe, that some other be not discovered hereafter, sithence ...
... eye (vi., intr.). 1 Cf. Montaigne. Essays, i. ch. 30. This discoverie of so infinit and vast a conntrie seemeth worthy great consideration. I wot not whether I can warrant my selfe, that some other be not discovered hereafter, sithence ...
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... eye, And wrapt in fetters of a golden tresse (v. 8, 1). The Palmer, who is Reason, speaks, and he goes forward. He makes a prisoner of Acrasia, and her bowers and palace he “broke downe with rigour pitilesse “(ii. 12, 83); and all this ...
... eye, And wrapt in fetters of a golden tresse (v. 8, 1). The Palmer, who is Reason, speaks, and he goes forward. He makes a prisoner of Acrasia, and her bowers and palace he “broke downe with rigour pitilesse “(ii. 12, 83); and all this ...
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... eyes to behold His bounty:— Beginne from first, where he encradled was In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay, Betweene the toyléfull Oxe and humble Asse, And in what rags, and in how base aray, The glory of our heavenly riches lay ...
... eyes to behold His bounty:— Beginne from first, where he encradled was In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay, Betweene the toyléfull Oxe and humble Asse, And in what rags, and in how base aray, The glory of our heavenly riches lay ...
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