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... commonplaces too familiar for the poets to make detailed use of except in explicitly didactic -passages , but essential as basic assumptions and invaluable at moments of high passion . Shakespeare glances at one of these essential ...
... commonplaces too familiar for the poets to make detailed use of except in explicitly didactic -passages , but essential as basic assumptions and invaluable at moments of high passion . Shakespeare glances at one of these essential ...
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... commonplace and may find that as few as possible of the relevant commonplaces have escaped me . It is unfortunate that the facts with which I have to deal , though all equally familiar to an Elizabethan , are not so to a modern . A part ...
... commonplace and may find that as few as possible of the relevant commonplaces have escaped me . It is unfortunate that the facts with which I have to deal , though all equally familiar to an Elizabethan , are not so to a modern . A part ...
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... commonplace that order in the state duplicates the order of the macrocosm . In the Homily of Obedience in the 1547 book of Homilies the two orders are put side by side : In the earth God hath assigned kings princes with other governors ...
... commonplace that order in the state duplicates the order of the macrocosm . In the Homily of Obedience in the 1547 book of Homilies the two orders are put side by side : In the earth God hath assigned kings princes with other governors ...
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according allowed angels animals beasts beauty beginning belief body called celestial common commonplace contained correspondence cosmic created creation creatures dance describing divine doctrine doth earth educated elements Elizabeth Elizabethan eternal excellent faculties fall fire follows fortune four function gives God's harmony hath head heart heaven heavenly highest Hooker human humours idea instance kind king knowledge known less light living macrocosm man's matter means medieval Middle Ages Milton mind moon nature notion passage passion perfect physical picture piece planets Platonic poem politic possible present prince pure qualities reason references rest says scheme sense serve Shakespeare shows soul speak spheres spirits stand stars things thought tion translated understanding universe unto virtue whole