The Cambridge History of English Literature: Cavalier and PuritanSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1911 |
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... Witch craft . Witch - hunting . Astro- logical treatises . Rosicrucianism . The history of the broadside . The street ballad and other forms of popular literature . Cavalier and Roundhead satires . Social pamphlets . Coffee - houses ...
... Witch craft . Witch - hunting . Astro- logical treatises . Rosicrucianism . The history of the broadside . The street ballad and other forms of popular literature . Cavalier and Roundhead satires . Social pamphlets . Coffee - houses ...
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... witch , or to scare away from the stables ' the hag that rides the mare , ' read like the primitive charm - songs of old English poetry , while such lyrics as The May - pole is up and The Tinker's Song have the verve and melody of the ...
... witch , or to scare away from the stables ' the hag that rides the mare , ' read like the primitive charm - songs of old English poetry , while such lyrics as The May - pole is up and The Tinker's Song have the verve and melody of the ...
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... witch or apparition . ' Other writers of the period showed the influence of the new ideas . From the scholastic point of view , Samuel Parker , bishop of Oxford , criticised both Hobbes and Descartes , a treatise on Cartesianism having ...
... witch or apparition . ' Other writers of the period showed the influence of the new ideas . From the scholastic point of view , Samuel Parker , bishop of Oxford , criticised both Hobbes and Descartes , a treatise on Cartesianism having ...
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... WITCH CONTROVERSY . PAMPHLETEERS THE enlightenment of the renascence had never penetrated the deeper recesses of the popular mind . The social , religious and economic revolutions of Tudor times ; the fermentation of city life under ...
... WITCH CONTROVERSY . PAMPHLETEERS THE enlightenment of the renascence had never penetrated the deeper recesses of the popular mind . The social , religious and economic revolutions of Tudor times ; the fermentation of city life under ...
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... witch controversy of the seventeenth century , it is necessary to remember that primitive people had always cherished a veneration for the ' wise woman ' , ' probably a relic of the mother - worship of the premigratory period , and that ...
... witch controversy of the seventeenth century , it is necessary to remember that primitive people had always cherished a veneration for the ' wise woman ' , ' probably a relic of the mother - worship of the premigratory period , and that ...
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