A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 248
... give us : what am I to whom these sweet hints are addressed ? Fruits are accept- able gifts , because they are the flower of commo- dities , and admit of fantastic values being attached to them . If a man should send to me to come a ...
... give us : what am I to whom these sweet hints are addressed ? Fruits are accept- able gifts , because they are the flower of commo- dities , and admit of fantastic values being attached to them . If a man should send to me to come a ...
Page 250
... give me this pot of oil , or this flagon of wine , when all your oil and wine is mine ? ' which belief of mine this gift seems to deny . Hence the fitness of beautiful , not useful things for gifts . This giving is flat usurpation , and ...
... give me this pot of oil , or this flagon of wine , when all your oil and wine is mine ? ' which belief of mine this gift seems to deny . Hence the fitness of beautiful , not useful things for gifts . This giving is flat usurpation , and ...
Page 424
... give glory to God . As if the flower could not give glory to God , until it abnegated its fragrance ; as if the clouds of sunset could not give glory to God , until they had been passed through a bleaching - vat ; as if the bird could ...
... give glory to God . As if the flower could not give glory to God , until it abnegated its fragrance ; as if the clouds of sunset could not give glory to God , until they had been passed through a bleaching - vat ; as if the bird could ...
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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