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" And yet ten Morte Arthurs do not the tenth part so much harm as one of these books made in Italy and translated in England. "
Cosmographical Glasses: Geographic Discourse, Gender, and Elizabethan Fiction - Page 88
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The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the ...

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1781 - 620 pages
...ARTHURES doe not the tenth part fo much harme, as one of thefe bookes made in Italic, and tranflated in England. They open, not fond and common ways to vice, but fuch futtle, cunning, new and diuerfe fliifts, to carry yong willes to vanitie and yong wittes to mifchiefe,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...boldly contemn all Severe books that sound to honesty and godliness. And yet ten La Mcrte d'Arthitres do not the tenth part so much harm, as one of these...common ways to vice, but such subtle, cunning, new, and divers shifts, to carry young wills to vanity, and young wits to mischief, to' teach old bawds new...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...boldly contemn all severe books that sound to honesty and godliness. * * And yet ten La Morte d'Arthwes do not the tenth part so much harm, as one of these...common ways to vice, but such subtle, cunning, new, and divers shifts, to carry young wills to vanity, and young wits to mischief, to teach old bawds new school...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...boldly contemn all severe books that sound to honesty and godliness. * * And yet ten La Morte d'Arthurcs do not the tenth part so much harm, as one of these...in Italy, and translated in England. They open, not foud and common ways to vice, but such subtle, cunning, new, and divers shifts, to carry young wills...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...boldly contemn all severe books that sound to honesty and godliness. * * And yet ten La Morte d'Arthvret do not the tenth part so much harm, as one of these...in Italy, and translated in England. They open, not loud and common ways to vice, but such subtle, cunning, new, and divers shifts, to carry young wills...
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The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth

Roger Ascham - Archery - 1815 - 428 pages
...that liveth wealthily and idly, wise men can judge, and honest men do pity. And yet ten Morte Arthurs do not the tenth part so much harm, as one of these...common ways to vice, but such subtle, cunning, new, and divers shifts, to carry young wills to vanity, and young wits to mischief, to teach old bawds new school...
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most ..., Volume 2

John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1816 - 518 pages
...Ascham, Queen Elizabeth's celebrated preceptor, who complains, " that ten La Morte d' Arthures did not the tenth part so much harm as one of these books made in Italy, and translated in England. And that which is most to be lamented, and therefore more needful to be looked to, there be moe of...
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The Bibliographical Decameron: Or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse ..., Volume 3

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1817 - 606 pages
...idly, wise men can judge and honest men do pity. And yet (continues our Roger) ten La Morte d' 'Arthurs do not the tenth part so much harm as one of these...shifts, to carry young wills to vanity, and young witts to mischief; to teach old bawds new school-points, as the simple head of an Englishman is not...
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The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to ..., Volume 4

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 504 pages
...yet ten MORTE ARTHURES doe not the tenth part so much harme, as one of these bookes made in Italic, and translated in England. They open, not fond and common ways to vice, but such suttle, cunning, new and diuerse shifts, to carry yong willes to vanitie and yong wittes to mischiefe,...
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The history of English poetry. To which are prefixed, three ..., Volume 3

Thomas Warton - 1840 - 550 pages
...yet ten MORTE ARTHURES doe not the tenth part so much harme, as one of these bookes made in Italic, and translated in England. They open, not fond and common ways to vice, but such suttle, cunning, new and diuerse shifts, to carry yong willes to vanitie and yong wittes to mischiefe,...
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