George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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Page 98
... human faculty of hearing . Although God has no ' eare ' in a sense of the term univocally predicable of God and man , the trope is not purely arbitrary ; it is not merely the subjective attribution of human wishes to Luther's utterly ...
... human faculty of hearing . Although God has no ' eare ' in a sense of the term univocally predicable of God and man , the trope is not purely arbitrary ; it is not merely the subjective attribution of human wishes to Luther's utterly ...
Page 137
... human certainties . In particular , the speaker of ' The Temper ( 1 ) ' , who seemed so joyously confident in the concluding stanza , may not have been so secure after all ; the prospect of an all - encompassing love creating ' one ...
... human certainties . In particular , the speaker of ' The Temper ( 1 ) ' , who seemed so joyously confident in the concluding stanza , may not have been so secure after all ; the prospect of an all - encompassing love creating ' one ...
Page 186
... human tendency to rebel against the service owed to God . From the start , however , there are important differ- ences of approach . Until the very last line , in which he applies everything he has said about Man to his own predicament ...
... human tendency to rebel against the service owed to God . From the start , however , there are important differ- ences of approach . Until the very last line , in which he applies everything he has said about Man to his own predicament ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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