The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and MiltonThis brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance—ideas and symbols which inspirited the minds and imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all men of the Renaissance. |
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... spirits the heathen honoured instead of gods , both generally under the name of gods infernal and particularly some in oracles , some in idols , some as household gods , some as nymphs : in a word , no foul and wicked spirit which was ...
... spirits are in due course carried through the arteries into the brain , where they are turned into animal spirits . The brain rules the top of man's body , and is the seat of the rational and immortal part . The animal spirits are the ...
... Spirits as like souls as it can , Because such fingers need to knit That subtile knot which makes us man : So must ... spirits , natural vital and animal , are for ever striving upwards , and the animal spirits , their highest reach ...
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The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of ... Eustace M. Tillyard No preview available - 1959 |
The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of ... Eustace M. Tillyard No preview available - 1959 |