Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry. |
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... sense of the planet wheeling round and round , but its principal sense is the one which developed early in the century , of things " coming round again in succes- sion . " The OED's first citation of this sense is an influential one ...
... sense of the planet wheeling round and round , but its principal sense is the one which developed early in the century , of things " coming round again in succes- sion . " The OED's first citation of this sense is an influential one ...
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... sense is more likely to be active than passive , spending not hoarding nature's coin . This , too , is the more probable sense of the " prime " of the last stanza . Virgins can lose their prime by not acting , but " but once " indicates ...
... sense is more likely to be active than passive , spending not hoarding nature's coin . This , too , is the more probable sense of the " prime " of the last stanza . Virgins can lose their prime by not acting , but " but once " indicates ...
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... senses of farce do not become current until toward the end of the seventeenth century . They originated in short dramatic works whose sole object was to inspire laughter : in this sense farce oc- curred in English from early in the ...
... senses of farce do not become current until toward the end of the seventeenth century . They originated in short dramatic works whose sole object was to inspire laughter : in this sense farce oc- curred in English from early in the ...
Contents
Thresholds I | 1 |
Praising and Blaming | 15 |
Strafford and Buckingham | 41 |
Copyright | |
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