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18 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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An astonishing prose stylist
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...
Published on December 5, 2000 by S. Gustafson
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1 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Hippo could improve
Being used to Amazon's excellent service, I was a bit taken aback when Hippo did not communicate at all after my order. Email for Hippo given in the Amazon box was wrong. When I emailed again through Amazon, I got an answer -- a day later -- from someone other than Hippo. Book arrived on time, and is in more or less the shape advertised.
Published on November 22, 2009 by Mary M. McCue
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18 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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An astonishing prose stylist,
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This review is from: Jeremy Taylor Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) (Paperback)
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.
1 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Hippo could improve,
By Mary M. McCue "History buff" (The Last Colony: Washington, DC, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Jeremy Taylor Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) (Paperback)
Being used to Amazon's excellent service, I was a bit taken aback when Hippo did not communicate at all after my order. Email for Hippo given in the Amazon box was wrong. When I emailed again through Amazon, I got an answer -- a day later -- from someone other than Hippo. Book arrived on time, and is in more or less the shape advertised.
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Jeremy Taylor Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Jeremy Taylor (Paperback - Dec. 1990)
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