Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages John Donne - Ben Jonson - George Herbert - Thomas Carew - Edmund Waller - Richard Crashaw - Andrew Marvell - Henry Vaughan - John Dryden. |
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Page 45
... Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze , turn giddy , rave , and die . Religion blushing veils her sacred fires , And unawares Morality expires . For public Flame , nor private , dares to shine ; Nor human Spark is ...
... Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze , turn giddy , rave , and die . Religion blushing veils her sacred fires , And unawares Morality expires . For public Flame , nor private , dares to shine ; Nor human Spark is ...
Page 138
... sense if bodies rise again : For if no use of sense remain When bodies once this life forsake , Or they could no delight partake , Why should they ever rise again ? The final postulate here alters the statement in De Veritate ( p . 124 ) ...
... sense if bodies rise again : For if no use of sense remain When bodies once this life forsake , Or they could no delight partake , Why should they ever rise again ? The final postulate here alters the statement in De Veritate ( p . 124 ) ...
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... sense main- tains a degree of antipathy . And the special quality of his fusion is that he does not try to gloss over the latent antipathy , for to sense it is to sense the depth of the feelings that override it . The poet loves God as ...
... sense main- tains a degree of antipathy . And the special quality of his fusion is that he does not try to gloss over the latent antipathy , for to sense it is to sense the depth of the feelings that override it . The poet loves God as ...
Contents
H J C GRIERSON Metaphysical Poetry | 3 |
T S ELIOT The Metaphysical Poets | 22 |
F R LEAVIS The Line of Wit | 31 |
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