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The heroic couplet wants to be bright , striving toward rhyming words of like importance , compatibility and wit . Donne , avoiding this , gives an effect of chiaroscuro — unsuspected and arresting light and shadow .
The heroic couplet wants to be bright , striving toward rhyming words of like importance , compatibility and wit . Donne , avoiding this , gives an effect of chiaroscuro — unsuspected and arresting light and shadow .
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Guibbory has made fruitful use of the important work by British historians over the past two decades , exploring the complexity of religious controversy in Herbert's era and its relation to the outbreak of the Civil War .
Guibbory has made fruitful use of the important work by British historians over the past two decades , exploring the complexity of religious controversy in Herbert's era and its relation to the outbreak of the Civil War .
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Christopher refers , as I do , to the quiet but important role played by the Holy Spirit in Paradise Regained and distinguishes Milton's views from those of the Ranters and Quakers , on the one hand , and the Cambridge Platonists ...
Christopher refers , as I do , to the quiet but important role played by the Holy Spirit in Paradise Regained and distinguishes Milton's views from those of the Ranters and Quakers , on the one hand , and the Cambridge Platonists ...
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