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Page 12
... moral and poetical , half fiercely polemical , which he called a " Theatre , wherein be represented as well the Miseries and Calamities which fol- low the voluptuous Worldlings , as also the great Joys and Pleasures which the Faithful ...
... moral and poetical , half fiercely polemical , which he called a " Theatre , wherein be represented as well the Miseries and Calamities which fol- low the voluptuous Worldlings , as also the great Joys and Pleasures which the Faithful ...
Page 19
... morals , yet there is no want of hard - headed shrewdness in his remarks ; indeed , in his rules for the adaptation of English words and accents to classical metres , he shows clearness and good sense in ap- prehending the conditions of ...
... morals , yet there is no want of hard - headed shrewdness in his remarks ; indeed , in his rules for the adaptation of English words and accents to classical metres , he shows clearness and good sense in ap- prehending the conditions of ...
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... Moral abandon'd ; the Light , the Light in every man's lips , but mark their eyes , and you will say they are rather like owls than eagles . As of old books , so of ancient virtue , honesty , fidelity , equity , new abridgments ; every ...
... Moral abandon'd ; the Light , the Light in every man's lips , but mark their eyes , and you will say they are rather like owls than eagles . As of old books , so of ancient virtue , honesty , fidelity , equity , new abridgments ; every ...
Page 35
... morals , preached against at Paul's Cross , expelled the city by the Corporation , classed by the law with rogues , vagabonds , and sturdy beggars , and patronized by the great and unscrupulous nobles in defiance of it - there burst ...
... morals , preached against at Paul's Cross , expelled the city by the Corporation , classed by the law with rogues , vagabonds , and sturdy beggars , and patronized by the great and unscrupulous nobles in defiance of it - there burst ...
Page 55
... morals , with the deepest and deadliest hatred of what he held to be their natural enemy , the Antichrist of Rome . The " good Lord Grey , " he was , if we believe his secretary , writing many years after this time , and when he was ...
... morals , with the deepest and deadliest hatred of what he held to be their natural enemy , the Antichrist of Rome . The " good Lord Grey , " he was , if we believe his secretary , writing many years after this time , and when he was ...
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