Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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... course of the ecclesiastical history of the Christian Church : The last Legacy of Christ was Peace and mutual Love ; but then he foretold that he came to send a Sword upon the Earth : The primitive Christians accepted the Legacy , and ...
... course of the ecclesiastical history of the Christian Church : The last Legacy of Christ was Peace and mutual Love ; but then he foretold that he came to send a Sword upon the Earth : The primitive Christians accepted the Legacy , and ...
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... Course , in his favor ? Conclusions based on a page like this ( which is here by omis- sion much simplified ) are bound to be perilous . These prose passages , however , seem rather embryonic couplets than matter for footnotes : they ...
... Course , in his favor ? Conclusions based on a page like this ( which is here by omis- sion much simplified ) are bound to be perilous . These prose passages , however , seem rather embryonic couplets than matter for footnotes : they ...
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... course Comes lagging like a distanc'd horse .... The cloth remov'd , the toasts go round , Bawdy and politics abound ; And as the knight more tipsy waxes , We damn all ministers and taxes . At last the ruddy sun quite sunk , The ...
... course Comes lagging like a distanc'd horse .... The cloth remov'd , the toasts go round , Bawdy and politics abound ; And as the knight more tipsy waxes , We damn all ministers and taxes . At last the ruddy sun quite sunk , The ...
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THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT HERBERT DAVIS Smith College | 33 |
THE INSPIRATION OF POPES POETRY JOHN BUTT Bedford | 65 |
WHERE ONCE STOOD THEIR PLAIN HOMELY DWELL | 80 |
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