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... dance . Milton in Comus , which as a masque would turn its author's thoughts to dancing , not only expresses his sense of the world's fullness , of the vastness of the chain of being , but passes from immobility to motion . He pictures ...
... dance . Milton in Comus , which as a masque would turn its author's thoughts to dancing , not only expresses his sense of the world's fullness , of the vastness of the chain of being , but passes from immobility to motion . He pictures ...
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... dance or in his own words to Imitate heaven , whose beauties excellent Are in continual motion day and night . Penelope refuses to join in something that is mere disorder or misrule , and there follows a ... dance the hey THE COSMIC DANCE 97.
... dance or in his own words to Imitate heaven , whose beauties excellent Are in continual motion day and night . Penelope refuses to join in something that is mere disorder or misrule , and there follows a ... dance the hey THE COSMIC DANCE 97.
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Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard. To show that your fair hands can dance the hey , Which your fine feet would ... dance reproduced in the body politic , thus completing the series of dances in macrocosm body politic and microcosm ...
Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard. To show that your fair hands can dance the hey , Which your fine feet would ... dance reproduced in the body politic , thus completing the series of dances in macrocosm body politic and microcosm ...
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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 and Microcosm man's medieval microcosm Middle Ages Milton mind moon mutability nature Nemesius Noble Kinsmen notion orthodox passage passion perfect plants Platonic poem poetical poetry primum mobile prince Queen Raleigh reason references resembled Romei Sebonde sense Shakespeare soul speech Spenser spheres spirits stars sublunary Theodore Spencer theological things thou thought tion Troilus and Cressida Ulysses's understanding universe unto virtue whole world picture