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" And new philosophy calls all in doubt; The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and th' earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. "
The British Muse: Or, A Collection of Thoughts, Moral, Natural, and Sublime ... - Page 295
by Thomas Hayward - 1738
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The Universal Kabbalah

Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 pages
...that defines the modern world. This doubt was given early expression by John Donne: And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th' earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it. . . . 'Tis all...
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World and Worldhood / Monde et Mondanéité

Guttorm Fløistad, Peter Kemp - 1994 - 224 pages
...à John Donne, dans un texte peut-être trop cité, tout un arsenal d'images : « The new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out ; The sun is lost and the earth, and no man' wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men...
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Clashing Symbols: An Introduction to Faith and Culture

Michael Paul Gallagher - 2003 - 212 pages
...poet John Donne was expressing this sense of crisis in his 'First Anniversary': And new philosophy calls all in doubt The Element of fire is quite put out... 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone. But if modernity, for some interpreters, meant loss, for others...
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Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright

Patrick Cheney - 2004 - 346 pages
...anticipates Donne's more famous articulation, two years later in the First Anniversary. "And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, / The Element of fire is quite put out; I ... I Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone."5' While this view of "doubt" during the period is well...
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What Is the Good Life?

Luc Ferry - 2005 - 331 pages
...aware of the principles involved in the "Copernican revolution," John Donne wrote: . . . New philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it. 'Tis all in peeces,...
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The Eloquence of Mary Astell

Christine Mason Sutherland - 2005 - 228 pages
...laments in the famous passage from "An Anatomie of the World: The First Anniversary": And new Philosophy calls all in doubt. The Element of fire is quite put out, The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to lookefor it. And freely men...
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Textual Healing: Essays on Medieval And Early Modern Medicine

Elizabeth Lane Furdell - 2005 - 311 pages
...his most notorious pronouncement about the astronomical discoveries of his day: And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men...
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Seventeenth-century Art and Architecture

Ann Sutherland Harris - 2005 - 454 pages
...and spend lavishly on art at the same time. Geography, Cosmology, and Astronomy And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men...
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Living on the Edge in Leonardo’s Florence: Selected Essays

Gene Brucker - 2005 - 239 pages
...pervasive mood was brilliantly captured by the English poet John Donne (d. 1631): And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit, Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men...
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Re Verse: Essays on Poetry and Poets

David R. Slavitt - 2005 - 225 pages
...playing with an old slipper and focusing almost entirely on the two lines about how "New philosophy calls all in doubt, / The element of fire is quite put out ..." And then, studiously, professorially, she explicated what Donne was referring to, attending more...
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