George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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Page vii
... Temple ( 1633 ) , George Herbert quotes Virgil , Aeneid 6 : 258 ( ' procul este profani ' ) : Avoid profaneness ; come not here ... The address is not to the reader but to profaneness itself , ' Avoid ' here carrying the imperative ...
... Temple ( 1633 ) , George Herbert quotes Virgil , Aeneid 6 : 258 ( ' procul este profani ' ) : Avoid profaneness ; come not here ... The address is not to the reader but to profaneness itself , ' Avoid ' here carrying the imperative ...
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... Temple , so often approached with reverence by believers and non- believers alike , would seem to be one literary ... Temple , however , ' these preparations propheticall ' , were ' distilled from above ' . Oley under- lines the ...
... Temple , so often approached with reverence by believers and non- believers alike , would seem to be one literary ... Temple , however , ' these preparations propheticall ' , were ' distilled from above ' . Oley under- lines the ...
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... Temple is the type of the temple of the heart , and the glory of outward edifices is of value only insofar as it may aid inward edification and regeneration . In Solomon's temple , as in the choir of King's , ' the wood was all embel ...
... Temple is the type of the temple of the heart , and the glory of outward edifices is of value only insofar as it may aid inward edification and regeneration . In Solomon's temple , as in the choir of King's , ' the wood was all embel ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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