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Page 83
... ( witness Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde ) . Such concentration of love was rightly directed to God alone . Now physical love , response to the beauty of the senses , was seen as a possible first step in aspiration to love of the highest ...
... ( witness Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde ) . Such concentration of love was rightly directed to God alone . Now physical love , response to the beauty of the senses , was seen as a possible first step in aspiration to love of the highest ...
Page 108
... witness to consciousness of the root and its meaning . In the employment of words from old poets Spenser shows that he realized such archaic words had a nucleus of meanings - witness in ' Maye ' the Gloss on Chevisaunce ' sometime of ...
... witness to consciousness of the root and its meaning . In the employment of words from old poets Spenser shows that he realized such archaic words had a nucleus of meanings - witness in ' Maye ' the Gloss on Chevisaunce ' sometime of ...
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... witness the famous lyric on the Blessed Virgin ' I sing of a maiden that is makeles ' , where the word ' makeles ' is a nucleus of significances at the heart of the poem : matchless ( unmated and also peerless ) along with ' immaculate ...
... witness the famous lyric on the Blessed Virgin ' I sing of a maiden that is makeles ' , where the word ' makeles ' is a nucleus of significances at the heart of the poem : matchless ( unmated and also peerless ) along with ' immaculate ...
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