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... passed to Adam in Paradise , upon a stage level with the highest steps of the church door . From that Paradise Adam and Eve were driven down a few steps to the lower stage that represented Earth . Below this , nearest to the spectators ...
... passed to Adam in Paradise , upon a stage level with the highest steps of the church door . From that Paradise Adam and Eve were driven down a few steps to the lower stage that represented Earth . Below this , nearest to the spectators ...
Page 242
... passed ; the lack whereof , I fear me , will make more burned within this seven year next coming than else should have needed to have been burned in seven score . " Let us be just to More , without forgetting that he has left this ...
... passed ; the lack whereof , I fear me , will make more burned within this seven year next coming than else should have needed to have been burned in seven score . " Let us be just to More , without forgetting that he has left this ...
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... passed into the acting of the story : very much as the art of the mediæval story - teller had passed into that of the Elizabethan dramatist . The Princess Delia was sought by her brothers , and sought also by Eumenides , her lover . A ...
... passed into the acting of the story : very much as the art of the mediæval story - teller had passed into that of the Elizabethan dramatist . The Princess Delia was sought by her brothers , and sought also by Eumenides , her lover . A ...
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