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... Christian Humanist European society at large and is autobiographically present as the heroic poet or seer wearing his bardic robes . The emphasis , however , is still on genre or conventions of discourse , and recent Milton criticism ...
... Christian Humanist European society at large and is autobiographically present as the heroic poet or seer wearing his bardic robes . The emphasis , however , is still on genre or conventions of discourse , and recent Milton criticism ...
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... Christian or Christian - Platonic transcenden- talism , not only the limited anguish of Odi , nec possum , cupiens , non esse quod odi ( ' I hate what I am , and yet , for all my striving , I can only be what I hate ' ) ( Amores , 2.4 ) ...
... Christian or Christian - Platonic transcenden- talism , not only the limited anguish of Odi , nec possum , cupiens , non esse quod odi ( ' I hate what I am , and yet , for all my striving , I can only be what I hate ' ) ( Amores , 2.4 ) ...
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... Christian liturgy , to be heard not in a secret retreat but in a celebratory , specifically and communally function ... Christian , the desire for an initiation by dream is followed by the desire for an explicitly Christian ec- stasy'.37 ...
... Christian liturgy , to be heard not in a secret retreat but in a celebratory , specifically and communally function ... Christian , the desire for an initiation by dream is followed by the desire for an explicitly Christian ec- stasy'.37 ...
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CONVENTIONS OF | 23 |
CONVENTIONS OF IMITATION | 59 |
CONVENTIONS OF DEVOTION I | 81 |
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