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... spheres in the order given above , the seraphs regulating the primum mobile and so on . Dionysius also sees a ... spheres . But in Plato each sphere made its own note ; there was no question of all the stars singing . Shakespeare ...
... spheres in the order given above , the seraphs regulating the primum mobile and so on . Dionysius also sees a ... spheres . But in Plato each sphere made its own note ; there was no question of all the stars singing . Shakespeare ...
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... spheres of the physical universe are not regulated by the differ- ent orders of angels on the medieval scheme but duplicated Platonically by other , ideal ones : For far above these heavens , which here we see , Be others far exceeding ...
... spheres of the physical universe are not regulated by the differ- ent orders of angels on the medieval scheme but duplicated Platonically by other , ideal ones : For far above these heavens , which here we see , Be others far exceeding ...
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... sphere and devotion to the Intelligence or Angel revolving it . This in Donne is not just a piece of private medievalism but a current orthodox notion . Hooker hints at it . Goodman finds the motion of the spheres so complicated that it ...
... sphere and devotion to the Intelligence or Angel revolving it . This in Donne is not just a piece of private medievalism but a current orthodox notion . Hooker hints at it . Goodman finds the motion of the spheres so complicated that it ...
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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