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Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard. I speak of stale things as if they were fresh and obscure things as if they were known , it is to preserve the proportions in which I imagine the Elizabethans saw them all . In quoting I have ...
Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard. I speak of stale things as if they were fresh and obscure things as if they were known , it is to preserve the proportions in which I imagine the Elizabethans saw them all . In quoting I have ...
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... things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay , of the ... things else she bears the greatest sway : Which makes me loathe this state of life so tickle And love of things so ...
... things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay , of the ... things else she bears the greatest sway : Which makes me loathe this state of life so tickle And love of things so ...
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... things sensual he is a brute beast , if to things reasonable and civil he groweth a celestial creature ; but if he exalt the beautiful gift of his mind to things invisible and divine he transformeth himself into an angel and , to ...
... things sensual he is a brute beast , if to things reasonable and civil he groweth a celestial creature ; but if he exalt the beautiful gift of his mind to things invisible and divine he transformeth himself into an angel and , to ...
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