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Page 54
... seems to have accepted the pre - Copernican theory of the universe , which taught that the sun travelled around the earth , and that the earth itself was surmounted by a series of crystalline spheres , revolving one upon the other . His ...
... seems to have accepted the pre - Copernican theory of the universe , which taught that the sun travelled around the earth , and that the earth itself was surmounted by a series of crystalline spheres , revolving one upon the other . His ...
Page 144
... seems to be overcharged with words and ideas which come tumbling and rushing out : In other countries they have the same grievances , I confess , but that doth not excuse us , wants , defects , enormities , idle drones , tumults ...
... seems to be overcharged with words and ideas which come tumbling and rushing out : In other countries they have the same grievances , I confess , but that doth not excuse us , wants , defects , enormities , idle drones , tumults ...
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... seems to have been shaped by two emotional catastrophes - his wife was pronounced insane and , about 1846 , he fell in love with Jane Brookfield . The wife of a close friend , Mrs Brookfield was a gifted and beautiful , but unhappy ...
... seems to have been shaped by two emotional catastrophes - his wife was pronounced insane and , about 1846 , he fell in love with Jane Brookfield . The wife of a close friend , Mrs Brookfield was a gifted and beautiful , but unhappy ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Age of Chaucer | 16 |
The English Renaissance 335 | 35 |
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Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man Ann Cline Kelly No preview available - 2002 |