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... created things By steps we may ascend to God . This double vision of world order and of the effects of sin was the great medieval achievement . Its origins , like those of the world order considered separately , go back to Genesis and ...
... created things By steps we may ascend to God . This double vision of world order and of the effects of sin was the great medieval achievement . Its origins , like those of the world order considered separately , go back to Genesis and ...
Page 20
... created the world not out of nothing but out of himself , he does deal principally with the two great compon- ents of the traditional world picture : the glory of creation and the havoc sin made of it . The details of Old Testament ...
... created the world not out of nothing but out of himself , he does deal principally with the two great compon- ents of the traditional world picture : the glory of creation and the havoc sin made of it . The details of Old Testament ...
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... creation had been figured as an act of music ; and the notion appealed power- fully to the poetically or the mystically ... created universe was itself in a state of music , that it was one perpetual dance . It was a commonplace in the ...
... creation had been figured as an act of music ; and the notion appealed power- fully to the poetically or the mystically ... created universe was itself in a state of music , that it was one perpetual dance . It was a commonplace in the ...
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age of Elizabeth angels animals Aristotle Arthur Lovejoy beasts beauty belief bethan body politic Boethius celestial chain chaos commonplace correspondence cosmic created creation creatures dance Davies of Hereford degree disorder divine doctrine Donne doth E. K. Chambers earth Eliza Elizabethan age Elizabethan literature eternal ether faculties fall fire four elements four humours glory God's Hakewill harmony hath heaven heavenly hierarchies highest Hooker human humours idea John Norden kind king light living lowest macrocosm man's matter medieval microcosm Middle Ages Milton mind moon mutability nature Nemesius Noble Kinsmen notion orthodox passage passion perfect planets Platonic poem poetical poetry primum mobile prince Queen Raleigh reason references resembled Romei scheme Sebonde sense Shakespeare soul speech Spenser's spheres spirits stars sublunary Theodore Spencer theological things thou thought tion Troilus and Cressida Ulysses's understanding universe unto virtue whole world picture