The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... censure of transubstantiation , whatever be its value , was uttered long ago by Anne Askew , one of the first sufferers for the Proteftant Re- ligion , who in the time of Henry VIII . was tortured in the Tower ; concerning which there ...
... censure of transubstantiation , whatever be its value , was uttered long ago by Anne Askew , one of the first sufferers for the Proteftant Re- ligion , who in the time of Henry VIII . was tortured in the Tower ; concerning which there ...
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... censured . The outrages and crimes of the Puritans brought afterwards their whole system of doctrine into disrepute , and from the Resto- ration the poets and the players were left at quiet ; for to have molested them would have had the ...
... censured . The outrages and crimes of the Puritans brought afterwards their whole system of doctrine into disrepute , and from the Resto- ration the poets and the players were left at quiet ; for to have molested them would have had the ...
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