George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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Page 66
... Phrase . The Hebraisms are kept , and the Phrase of that Language is kept ' . ' It is an idiom intelligible to those familiar with the language of Canaan in its strict and ordinary sense , those who know Hebrew ; ' but when it comes ...
... Phrase . The Hebraisms are kept , and the Phrase of that Language is kept ' . ' It is an idiom intelligible to those familiar with the language of Canaan in its strict and ordinary sense , those who know Hebrew ; ' but when it comes ...
Page 130
... phrase ' knowing his great birth ' , which had led the speaker to such false assumptions about the Lord , sounds hollow in retrospect . But the major irony of the poem comes with the entry of a second voice - that of Christ on the cross ...
... phrase ' knowing his great birth ' , which had led the speaker to such false assumptions about the Lord , sounds hollow in retrospect . But the major irony of the poem comes with the entry of a second voice - that of Christ on the cross ...
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... phrases after it ? Though ' Prayer ' ends with the phrase ' something understood ' , that phrase itself is a riddling one - what is that something ? And who is it that under- ... stands , God or man ? The problem of EMBLEMATIC AND ...
... phrases after it ? Though ' Prayer ' ends with the phrase ' something understood ' , that phrase itself is a riddling one - what is that something ? And who is it that under- ... stands , God or man ? The problem of EMBLEMATIC AND ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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