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... picture itself , one can say dogmatic- ally that it was still solidly theocentric , and that it was a simplified version of a much more complicated medieval pic- ture . Now the Middle Ages derived their world picture from an amalgam of ...
... picture itself , one can say dogmatic- ally that it was still solidly theocentric , and that it was a simplified version of a much more complicated medieval pic- ture . Now the Middle Ages derived their world picture from an amalgam of ...
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... picture of immense and varied activity , constantly threatened with dissolution , and yet pre- served from it by a superior unifying power . The picture , however , though so rich , is not complete . There is nothing about God and the ...
... picture of immense and varied activity , constantly threatened with dissolution , and yet pre- served from it by a superior unifying power . The picture , however , though so rich , is not complete . There is nothing about God and the ...
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... picture ; and at times it is presented with such concrete circumstance as both to risk absurdity and to turn the spectator's or the reader's thoughts far from the stars with their subtly penetrating influences . There are those grossly ...
... picture ; and at times it is presented with such concrete circumstance as both to risk absurdity and to turn the spectator's or the reader's thoughts far from the stars with their subtly penetrating influences . There are those grossly ...
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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