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... method itself - is the slowly changing view of the universe in the seventeenth century . As the cosmos ceased to be picturable in terms of the ordered and neat Ptolemaic or Keplerian - system of concentric spheres , and the notion of ...
... method itself - is the slowly changing view of the universe in the seventeenth century . As the cosmos ceased to be picturable in terms of the ordered and neat Ptolemaic or Keplerian - system of concentric spheres , and the notion of ...
Page 69
... method : in Absalom and Achitophel the varying social status of the characters attacked is shown in different levels of style , ranging from heroic to directly abusive . The mock - heroic method was one to which Dryden could not give ...
... method : in Absalom and Achitophel the varying social status of the characters attacked is shown in different levels of style , ranging from heroic to directly abusive . The mock - heroic method was one to which Dryden could not give ...
Page 210
... method , but also as an attempt to capture and sum up a universe fast becoming unclassifiable and unintelligible . The system of universal correspondence which disappeared in the seventeenth century had made it possible for the ...
... method , but also as an attempt to capture and sum up a universe fast becoming unclassifiable and unintelligible . The system of universal correspondence which disappeared in the seventeenth century had made it possible for the ...
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