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... describing was much more than political order , or , if political , was always a part of a larger cosmic order . I found , further , that the Elizabethans saw this single order under three aspects : a chain , a set of correspondences ...
... describing was much more than political order , or , if political , was always a part of a larger cosmic order . I found , further , that the Elizabethans saw this single order under three aspects : a chain , a set of correspondences ...
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... describing creation : The earth the air the water and the fire Then gan to range themselves in huge array And with contrary forces to conspire Each against other by all means they may , Threat'ning their own confusion and decay : Air ...
... describing creation : The earth the air the water and the fire Then gan to range themselves in huge array And with contrary forces to conspire Each against other by all means they may , Threat'ning their own confusion and decay : Air ...
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... describing is extinct . In 1914 , when Joffre and French were commanders - in - chief , many people were truly delighted that each name contained six letters and that the last three letters of the first name and the first three of the ...
... describing is extinct . In 1914 , when Joffre and French were commanders - in - chief , many people were truly delighted that each name contained six letters and that the last three letters of the first name and the first three of 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 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