A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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Page 128
... religious and the secular . The line between these two is not always discernible unless we adhere faithfully to the test of subject matter or topic . Many a poem of religious purpose and substance may be couched in the amoristic ...
... religious and the secular . The line between these two is not always discernible unless we adhere faithfully to the test of subject matter or topic . Many a poem of religious purpose and substance may be couched in the amoristic ...
Page 299
... religious felicity . Religion adorned by piety , music , and architectural beauty and permeated with gentleness , modesty , and tolerance - this is what Herbert achieved . He was intimate with one of the saints of the age , Nicholas ...
... religious felicity . Religion adorned by piety , music , and architectural beauty and permeated with gentleness , modesty , and tolerance - this is what Herbert achieved . He was intimate with one of the saints of the age , Nicholas ...
Page 445
... religious experience . Some tendencies of the century had been unconducive to genuine religious feeling . In the scien- tific view of the universe , Deity had become an abstract and theoretical Creator or First Cause of the physical ...
... religious experience . Some tendencies of the century had been unconducive to genuine religious feeling . In the scien- tific view of the universe , Deity had become an abstract and theoretical Creator or First Cause of the physical ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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