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Gradually the mind worked its way out of the first reaction of gloom , which led to skepticism on the one hand and to blind faith and retreat into mysticism on the other , and became aware that the new theory of the universe was a ...
Gradually the mind worked its way out of the first reaction of gloom , which led to skepticism on the one hand and to blind faith and retreat into mysticism on the other , and became aware that the new theory of the universe was a ...
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That I may rise and stand , o'erthrow me His troubled mind , his constant study , and his unflagging zeal wore out a body spent with many sicknesses . Donne's poetry covers a wide range of types : satires , verse letters , epithalamia ...
That I may rise and stand , o'erthrow me His troubled mind , his constant study , and his unflagging zeal wore out a body spent with many sicknesses . Donne's poetry covers a wide range of types : satires , verse letters , epithalamia ...
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Donne's agile wit can push them , and the mind is wearied in pursuing the subtle line of reasoning . In both cases the purpose is to make a precise definition . These figures are new in material as well as in treatment , for they are ...
Donne's agile wit can push them , and the mind is wearied in pursuing the subtle line of reasoning . In both cases the purpose is to make a precise definition . These figures are new in material as well as in treatment , for they are ...
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Contents
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND | 1 |
JOHN DONNE | 21 |
BEN JONSON | 76 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century |
| Editor | Roberta Florence Brinkley |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Norton, 1942 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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