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... empty Satan's head of its devoured content , the world . The seed of Eve is the fruit of Mary's virginal womb ; Jesus has grown " to youth's full flow'r " ( I , 67 ) when he “ receives / Light from above , from the fountain of light ...
... empty Satan's head of its devoured content , the world . The seed of Eve is the fruit of Mary's virginal womb ; Jesus has grown " to youth's full flow'r " ( I , 67 ) when he “ receives / Light from above , from the fountain of light ...
Page 120
... empty tub that sailors throw out to divert a whale " from laying violent Hands upon the Ship " ( T , 40 ) . The ship endangered is given as the commonwealth , whose abstract religious and governmental structures “ are hollow , and dry ...
... empty tub that sailors throw out to divert a whale " from laying violent Hands upon the Ship " ( T , 40 ) . The ship endangered is given as the commonwealth , whose abstract religious and governmental structures “ are hollow , and dry ...
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... empty us of the world by filling us with their own reverberations : “ she took the ugliest of her Monsters , full glutted from her Spleen , and flung it invisibly into his Mouth ; which flying strait up into his Head , squeez'd out his ...
... empty us of the world by filling us with their own reverberations : “ she took the ugliest of her Monsters , full glutted from her Spleen , and flung it invisibly into his Mouth ; which flying strait up into his Head , squeez'd out his ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
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