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... nature , and the poet - figure has great difficulty in trusting the God in whom he must believe . As the poet himself says , he has ' a sinne of feare , that when I have spunne / My last thred , I shall perish on the shore ' ( ' A Hymne ...
... nature , and the poet - figure has great difficulty in trusting the God in whom he must believe . As the poet himself says , he has ' a sinne of feare , that when I have spunne / My last thred , I shall perish on the shore ' ( ' A Hymne ...
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... nature and nature in the past . - - It is possible , and fruitful , to see seventeenth - century history in England as a dialogue between three terms city , court , and country and in the poetry of that century the terms interact with a ...
... nature and nature in the past . - - It is possible , and fruitful , to see seventeenth - century history in England as a dialogue between three terms city , court , and country and in the poetry of that century the terms interact with a ...
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... nature of existence which these questions introduce . The witty discussion is clearly hyperbolic , but Herbert's strongly philosophical bent leads to verse which , at its best , has some persuasive weight : Nor shall we question more ...
... nature of existence which these questions introduce . The witty discussion is clearly hyperbolic , but Herbert's strongly philosophical bent leads to verse which , at its best , has some persuasive weight : Nor shall we question more ...
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