Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 170
... tion , of its illegality . Having few religious scruples he attended the king to mass and kneeled with the rest , but had no disposi- tion to receive the Romish Faith or to force it upon others ; for when the priests , encouraged by his ...
... tion , of its illegality . Having few religious scruples he attended the king to mass and kneeled with the rest , but had no disposi- tion to receive the Romish Faith or to force it upon others ; for when the priests , encouraged by his ...
Page 301
... tion to ' beware of thorough - paced doctrine , that doctrine which coming in at one ear passes through the head , and goes out at the other ' . ' Nothing worse than this appearing in his papers and no 13 evidence arising against him ...
... tion to ' beware of thorough - paced doctrine , that doctrine which coming in at one ear passes through the head , and goes out at the other ' . ' Nothing worse than this appearing in his papers and no 13 evidence arising against him ...
Page 367
... tion ; he was dubious and irresolute without end , as on a question of the last importance , and at last was seldom satisfied : the intrusion or omission of a comma was sufficient to discompose him , and he would lament an error of a ...
... tion ; he was dubious and irresolute without end , as on a question of the last importance , and at last was seldom satisfied : the intrusion or omission of a comma was sufficient to discompose him , and he would lament an error of a ...
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