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... pieces of elementary lore which I have not found assembled elsewhere . This book may actually be a convenient factual ... piece of Shakespeare or Milton used simultaneously to state a doctrine and to exemplify the use poetry can make of ...
... pieces of elementary lore which I have not found assembled elsewhere . This book may actually be a convenient factual ... piece of Shakespeare or Milton used simultaneously to state a doctrine and to exemplify the use poetry can make of ...
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... piece of Platonising , beautiful but irresponsible , is found in Spenser , in his Hymn of Heavenly Beauty . Here the spheres of the physical universe are not regulated by the differ- ent orders of angels on the medieval scheme but ...
... piece of Platonising , beautiful but irresponsible , is found in Spenser , in his Hymn of Heavenly Beauty . Here the spheres of the physical universe are not regulated by the differ- ent orders of angels on the medieval scheme but ...
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... piece of mystical mathematics and Philo's reasonableness . Indeed Ben Jonson , for all his good sense , plays on the idea of male and female numbers in his Masque of Hymen : And lastly these five waxen lights Imply perfection in the ...
... piece of mystical mathematics and Philo's reasonableness . Indeed Ben Jonson , for all his good sense , plays on the idea of male and female numbers in his Masque of Hymen : And lastly these five waxen lights Imply perfection in the ...
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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