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Page 86
... moral , and if time were given him , political philosophy , composed with as serious a didactic aim , as any treatise or sermon in prose . He deems it necessary to explain and excuse his work by claiming for it this design . He did not ...
... moral , and if time were given him , political philosophy , composed with as serious a didactic aim , as any treatise or sermon in prose . He deems it necessary to explain and excuse his work by claiming for it this design . He did not ...
Page 87
... moral virtue and political wis- dom . He attempted to propitiate Lord Burghley , who hated him and his verses , by setting before him in a dedi- cation sonnet , the true intent of his- Idle rimes ; The labour of lost time and wit ...
... moral virtue and political wis- dom . He attempted to propitiate Lord Burghley , who hated him and his verses , by setting before him in a dedi- cation sonnet , the true intent of his- Idle rimes ; The labour of lost time and wit ...
Page 130
... moral drift of the allegory , with an apparently distinct yet obscured meaning , and one of which it is the work of dissertations to find the key . The passion of the age was for ingenious riddling in morality as in love . And in ...
... moral drift of the allegory , with an apparently distinct yet obscured meaning , and one of which it is the work of dissertations to find the key . The passion of the age was for ingenious riddling in morality as in love . And in ...
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