George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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Page 126
... speaker begins oxymoronically : ' Welcome dear feast of Lent . ' Immedi- ately the speaker connects Lent with the dynamics of ' Authority ' . But the ' Authority ' to which the speaker is referring throughout is one in which individual ...
... speaker begins oxymoronically : ' Welcome dear feast of Lent . ' Immedi- ately the speaker connects Lent with the dynamics of ' Authority ' . But the ' Authority ' to which the speaker is referring throughout is one in which individual ...
Page 130
... speaker will admit of no uncertainty and moves ' straight ' from one step to the next in the ' bold ' plan of campaign . We may , however , already have picked up some textual hints of the ironic ignorance of a believer who wants ...
... speaker will admit of no uncertainty and moves ' straight ' from one step to the next in the ' bold ' plan of campaign . We may , however , already have picked up some textual hints of the ironic ignorance of a believer who wants ...
Page 133
... speaker who fondly imagines that everything is under control while the reality is that , in following Christ , the believer is likely to be at least a week ( if not a lifetime ) behind and always struggling to catch up . At the opposite ...
... speaker who fondly imagines that everything is under control while the reality is that , in following Christ , the believer is likely to be at least a week ( if not a lifetime ) behind and always struggling to catch up . At the opposite ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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