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... beginning to put pressure upon courtly exclusive- ness . Donne is writing at a time of growing mercantile self - confidence , when the Inns of Court and the public theatres are expressing attitudes which challenge the authority of court ...
... beginning to put pressure upon courtly exclusive- ness . Donne is writing at a time of growing mercantile self - confidence , when the Inns of Court and the public theatres are expressing attitudes which challenge the authority of court ...
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... beginning is a seductive one , especially when that new beginning is , paradoxically , seen as the re- turn to an imagined purer past state . The hopes centred upon Henry and the distress at his death can thus be associated with , for ...
... beginning is a seductive one , especially when that new beginning is , paradoxically , seen as the re- turn to an imagined purer past state . The hopes centred upon Henry and the distress at his death can thus be associated with , for ...
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... beginning knewe , Yet gives beginning to all that are borne , And how the Infinite farre greater grewe , By growing lesse , and how the rising Morne , That shot from heav'n , did backe to heaven retourne , The obsequies of him that ...
... beginning knewe , Yet gives beginning to all that are borne , And how the Infinite farre greater grewe , By growing lesse , and how the rising Morne , That shot from heav'n , did backe to heaven retourne , The obsequies of him that ...
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