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Page 239
... letter and an address to the pious reader . At the beginning of 1527 there was published also in English A Copy of the Letters wherin the most Redoubted and Mighty Prince our Soverayne Lorde Kynge Henry the Eight , Kynge of Englande and ...
... letter and an address to the pious reader . At the beginning of 1527 there was published also in English A Copy of the Letters wherin the most Redoubted and Mighty Prince our Soverayne Lorde Kynge Henry the Eight , Kynge of Englande and ...
Page 359
... letter " to the grave matrons and honest maidens of Italy , " in the spirit of one who , as Euphues wrote , " may love the clear conduit water , though he loathe the muddy ditch . Ulysses , though he detested Calypso , with her sugared ...
... letter " to the grave matrons and honest maidens of Italy , " in the spirit of one who , as Euphues wrote , " may love the clear conduit water , though he loathe the muddy ditch . Ulysses , though he detested Calypso , with her sugared ...
Page 484
... letter to Bassanio arrives at Belmont . In Antonio , man - subject to fortune , changeful as the waves - is about to stand between the two principles of justice and mercy , of the Old Testament and of the New , as Shakespeare read them ...
... letter to Bassanio arrives at Belmont . In Antonio , man - subject to fortune , changeful as the waves - is about to stand between the two principles of justice and mercy , of the Old Testament and of the New , as Shakespeare read them ...
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