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... simple folk - history , but also from the phrase ' the patience of Job ' which antedates the book as we have it and refers to the simple tale of trust and patience rewarded . Between the opening and closing brackets , that derive from ...
... simple folk - history , but also from the phrase ' the patience of Job ' which antedates the book as we have it and refers to the simple tale of trust and patience rewarded . Between the opening and closing brackets , that derive from ...
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... simple law of retribution prevails . If you were pure and upright , he tells Job , you would not be suffering now . For that , he says , is the view of all former gener- ations . Can we know better than our ancestors ? With consider ...
... simple law of retribution prevails . If you were pure and upright , he tells Job , you would not be suffering now . For that , he says , is the view of all former gener- ations . Can we know better than our ancestors ? With consider ...
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... simple devotion . Hopkins's poems prove his faith by the way he works through a cluster of contra- dictory yet mutually illuminating images . A poem such as ' Pied Beauty ' is on the surface much simpler , with its straightforward ...
... simple devotion . Hopkins's poems prove his faith by the way he works through a cluster of contra- dictory yet mutually illuminating images . A poem such as ' Pied Beauty ' is on the surface much simpler , with its straightforward ...
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Adam Adam's antinomian argument argument from design Arnold beauty belief Book of Job Burns Burns's C.S. Lewis called Calvinist Canto century Christ Christian creed Dante Dante's darkness death deism divine doctrine earth Edwin Muir English eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling Gifford Lectures glory God's goes grace hast Heaven Hebrew Hopkins Hugh MacDiarmid human imagery images imagination innocent James Thomson Job's justice kind language lecture literature Lord MacDiarmid man's meaning Milton mind mood moral moving mystery Nature never night orthodox Paradise Lost paradox poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Psalm reader reality religion religious Sangschaw Satan Scotland Scottish seems sense sing speech stanza Stevens suffering suggest symbolic tells Tennyson thee theodicy theology things Thomson thou thought tion tradition truth universe Victorian poet vision visionary voice W.B. Yeats Wallace Stevens Whitman wicked words