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... things ! Thawing Christall ! Snowy Hills ! Still spending , never spent ; I meane Thy faire Eyes sweet Magdalene . - - Crashaw , even more than John Cleveland , is a poet of synonym . In this first stanza , tears move from being ...
... things ! Thawing Christall ! Snowy Hills ! Still spending , never spent ; I meane Thy faire Eyes sweet Magdalene . - - Crashaw , even more than John Cleveland , is a poet of synonym . In this first stanza , tears move from being ...
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... things in a way which anticipates Coleridge's plastic imagination25 : My eye , which swift as thought contracts the space That lies between . ( II . 13–14 ) Denham is concerned to give depth and meaning to his landscape . He be- gins by ...
... things in a way which anticipates Coleridge's plastic imagination25 : My eye , which swift as thought contracts the space That lies between . ( II . 13–14 ) Denham is concerned to give depth and meaning to his landscape . He be- gins by ...
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... things are made , but sooner are undone ' ( ll . 239–40 ) . Further , there is com- plexity inherent in the ... thing along the lines of Cleveland's distressed use of the idea of the King's two bodies ( in ' The King's Disguise ' ) . It ...
... things are made , but sooner are undone ' ( ll . 239–40 ) . Further , there is com- plexity inherent in the ... thing along the lines of Cleveland's distressed use of the idea of the King's two bodies ( in ' The King's Disguise ' ) . It ...
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