Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680Routledge and Paul, 1962 - 246 pages |
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Page 56
... spirit , but the unconscious part of his mind was finding in them the kind of emotion for which it was craving . His clever modifications in themselves show how thor- oughly he entered into the spirit of Quarles's work . There is no ...
... spirit , but the unconscious part of his mind was finding in them the kind of emotion for which it was craving . His clever modifications in themselves show how thor- oughly he entered into the spirit of Quarles's work . There is no ...
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... spirit that wants to worship overwhelming greatness and can only find it in utter annihilation . It is a spirit that is essentially akin to those of the great poets and preachers of a former generation , of Ralegh with his address to an ...
... spirit that wants to worship overwhelming greatness and can only find it in utter annihilation . It is a spirit that is essentially akin to those of the great poets and preachers of a former generation , of Ralegh with his address to an ...
Page 192
... Spirits be found No ingrateful food : and food alike those pure Intelligential substances require As doth your Rational . Sir Henry Blount's implication , like Milton's , is that ' Spirit ' is simply a very refined sort of ' matter ...
... Spirits be found No ingrateful food : and food alike those pure Intelligential substances require As doth your Rational . Sir Henry Blount's implication , like Milton's , is that ' Spirit ' is simply a very refined sort of ' matter ...
Contents
Two THE CLIMATE OF OPINION | 22 |
Three VERY ACCEPTABLE IN A COURT | 32 |
Four THE UTOPIA OF GALLANTRY | 60 |
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