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Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. It is no such great metaphysical poetry as that of Lucretius and Dante that the present essay deals with . Of the poets whom Johnson classed as “ metaphysical ” , Donne is familiar with the definitions ...
Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. It is no such great metaphysical poetry as that of Lucretius and Dante that the present essay deals with . Of the poets whom Johnson classed as “ metaphysical ” , Donne is familiar with the definitions ...
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... metaphysical justification of God's ways to men , he failed more disastrously to justify them to the heart and the imagination , to suggest , if he divined it , an underlying mystery of divine love . Metaphysical in this large way ...
... metaphysical justification of God's ways to men , he failed more disastrously to justify them to the heart and the imagination , to suggest , if he divined it , an underlying mystery of divine love . Metaphysical in this large way ...
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... metaphysical wit . " He affects the metaphysics " , says Dryden , " not only in his satires but in his amorous verses where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy when he ...
... metaphysical wit . " He affects the metaphysics " , says Dryden , " not only in his satires but in his amorous verses where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy when he ...
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