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Religio Medici

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  • Beowulf
    In English literature: Prose styles

    In the Religio Medici (1635) and in “The Garden of Cyrus” and “Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial; or, A Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk” (both printed 1658) of Sir Thomas Browne, the loose style serves a mind delighting in paradox and unanswerable speculation, content with…

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