English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940 - 460 pages |
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Page 170
... given , that all incredible actions were removed ; but , whether custom has so insinuated itself into our country- men , or nature has so formed them to fierceness , I know not ; but they will scarcely suffer combats and other objects ...
... given , that all incredible actions were removed ; but , whether custom has so insinuated itself into our country- men , or nature has so formed them to fierceness , I know not ; but they will scarcely suffer combats and other objects ...
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... given him , I have no reason , unless it be the charity of a Christian , to forgive him : prior laesit is justification sufficient in the civil law . If I answer him in his own language , self- defence I am sure must be allowed me ; and ...
... given him , I have no reason , unless it be the charity of a Christian , to forgive him : prior laesit is justification sufficient in the civil law . If I answer him in his own language , self- defence I am sure must be allowed me ; and ...
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... given to the Supreme Being . But when this constitutional absurdity is for- given , the poem must be confessed to be written with great smoothness of metre , a wide extent of knowledge , and an abundant multiplicity of images ; the ...
... given to the Supreme Being . But when this constitutional absurdity is for- given , the poem must be confessed to be written with great smoothness of metre , a wide extent of knowledge , and an abundant multiplicity of images ; the ...
Contents
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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