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The Classics series, which has inspired many less-successful imitations over the years, has fulfilled its promise and given us an invaluable resource of the soul. The Catholic Historical Review Jeremy Taylor: Selected Works edited with an introduction by Thomas K. Carroll preface by John Booty Learn to despise the world; or, which is a better compendium in the duty, learn but truly to understand it; for it is a cousenage all the way; the head of its...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0809131757
ISBN13:9780809131754
Release Date:January 1990
Publisher:Paulist Press
Length:544 Pages
Weight:1.62 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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An astonishing prose stylist
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Jeremy Taylor deserves a wider audience than those who are interested only in Christian classics.He is also a prose stylist of the first water. Read him, and you will see where DeQuincey got his chops. As he warms to the solemn themes about which he writes, his sentences are like great rivers of poetic and exalted language. His experience as a preacher also makes him a great master of the -sound- of words.
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