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... kind of world remaining still . ( 63-7 ) This invites a more gradual approach : the poem now explains the ruin of the world in terms of man's original sin and the consequent decay of the beauty , order and coherence of the universe ...
... kind of world remaining still . ( 63-7 ) This invites a more gradual approach : the poem now explains the ruin of the world in terms of man's original sin and the consequent decay of the beauty , order and coherence of the universe ...
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... kind of involvement with opposed political sides and figures that Marvell shows in ' An Horatian Ode ' . Pushed to its limit , this is what the Roman and urbane stance behind Jonson's poetry demands ; but , since it also implies the ...
... kind of involvement with opposed political sides and figures that Marvell shows in ' An Horatian Ode ' . Pushed to its limit , this is what the Roman and urbane stance behind Jonson's poetry demands ; but , since it also implies the ...
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... kind as to give himself the least Trouble to reconcile or account for this mon- strous Change and Incongruity . There is , indeed , no other Reason to be assigned for it , than because the Play is drawing to a Conclusion . ( pp . 405-6 ) ...
... kind as to give himself the least Trouble to reconcile or account for this mon- strous Change and Incongruity . There is , indeed , no other Reason to be assigned for it , than because the Play is drawing to a Conclusion . ( pp . 405-6 ) ...
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