A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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... divine dreams seems unreasonably doubted by Aristotle . That there are demoniacal dreams we have little reason to doubt . Why may there not be angelical ? If there be guardian spirits , they may not be in- actively about us in sleep ...
... divine dreams seems unreasonably doubted by Aristotle . That there are demoniacal dreams we have little reason to doubt . Why may there not be angelical ? If there be guardian spirits , they may not be in- actively about us in sleep ...
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... divine Creator ! Were men entirely free from vice , all would be uniformity , harmony , and order . A world of moral rectitude should be the result of a perfect moral agent . Why , why then , O Alla ! must I be thus confined in darkness ...
... divine Creator ! Were men entirely free from vice , all would be uniformity , harmony , and order . A world of moral rectitude should be the result of a perfect moral agent . Why , why then , O Alla ! must I be thus confined in darkness ...
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... divine human creature , -greater name than even divine poet or divine philosopher , -and yet thou wast all three , a very spring and vernal abundance of all fair and noble things is to be found in thy productions ! They are truly a ...
... divine human creature , -greater name than even divine poet or divine philosopher , -and yet thou wast all three , a very spring and vernal abundance of all fair and noble things is to be found in thy productions ! They are truly a ...
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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