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In our study we have noted the Transition Poets, of whom Daniel is chief; the Song Writers, Campion and Breton; the Spenserian Poets, Wither and Giles Fletcher; the Metaphysical Poets, Donne and Herbert; the Cavalier Poets, Herrick, Carew, Lovelace, and Suckling; John Milton, his life, his early or Horton poems, his militant prose, and his last great poetical works; John Bunyan, his extraordinary life, and his chief work, The Pilgrim's Progress; the Minor Prose Writers, Burton, Browne, Fuller, Taylor, Baxter, and Walton.
The elder man looked preoccupied, and the Greek was the first to speak. 'I suppose you've seen that shameful article about Van Torp, he said. 'Yes. Somebody sent me a marked copy of the paper. Do you know whether Miss Donne has seen it? 'Yes. She got a marked copy too. So did I. What do you think of it? 'Just what you do, I fancy. Have you any idea who wrote it?
Il a donné
He bears the spirit of his time not less markedly than Bacon does, or Newton, or Descartes. The work of the followers of Donne and Jonson leads straight to the new school, Jonson's by giving that school a model on which to work, Donne's by producing an era of extravagance and absurdity which made a literary revolution imperative.
"Eh! Messieurs," said a well-dressed bourgeoise, who saw us sauntering about near the door of her shop, "vous irez sans doute voir notre beau château: il fut donné par Jean de Poitiers au premier Seigneur de St. Vallier, et il a descendu jusqu'
"Je donne mon corps aux Pédants: je lègue mon âme aux manes de Voltaire et de J.J. Rousseau, qui m'ont appris
It is by no means inconsistent with the character of the man; never, in any instance, has he been known to value the lives of men, where either ambition or revenge instigated him. Tant mieux, replique Napoleon, cela me donne des soldats!!"
You see, it's not a thing that can be changed, or helped, or bettered. It's a condition from which I cannot escape, and I've got to live in it. It would have been easier if I had never met you, my dear Miss Donne! He straightened himself and put on something of the formality that had become a habit with him, as it easily does with shy men who feel much.
One has only to read Donne, Crashaw, and Vaughan to recognize the kinship. Like these three men of genius, Thompson was not only profoundly spiritual he was aflame with religious passion. He was exalted in a mystical ecstasy, all a wonder and a wild desire. He was an inspired poet, careless of method, careless of form, careless of thought-sequences. The zeal for God's house had eaten him up.
I could see Mr Bradshaw was annoyed, and he and the other gentleman spoke to Mr Donne, and I heard them say, 'too barefaced; and I shall never forget Mr Donne's proud, stubborn look back at them, nor his way of saying, 'I allow no one to interfere with what I choose to do with my own. And he looked so haughty and displeased, I durst say nothing at the time.
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