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... hand , had in- culcated gentleness and clemency , and tried in that way to soften judicial morals . On the other hand , in adding to the primitive need of retribution the horror of sin , it had to a certain extent stimulated the sense ...
... hand , had in- culcated gentleness and clemency , and tried in that way to soften judicial morals . On the other hand , in adding to the primitive need of retribution the horror of sin , it had to a certain extent stimulated the sense ...
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... hand , the rising tide of religious feeling , breaking into the waves of a fiercer fanaticism , almost as passionately hostile to the stage as to the Anti- Christian Church of Rome . One may dream , but it is only a dream , that if the ...
... hand , the rising tide of religious feeling , breaking into the waves of a fiercer fanaticism , almost as passionately hostile to the stage as to the Anti- Christian Church of Rome . One may dream , but it is only a dream , that if the ...
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... hand ; no , this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine , Making the green one red.1 We feel ourselves in want of a summing - up that is 1 It would be difficult to find a better or clearer expression of the sense of ...
... hand ; no , this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine , Making the green one red.1 We feel ourselves in want of a summing - up that is 1 It would be difficult to find a better or clearer expression of the sense of ...
Contents
RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION | 1 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 29 |
COMEDY | 66 |
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