The Dialogue in English Literature, Issue 42 |
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... complete story of his wanderings . The Debate between Pride and Lowliness , 2 though largely in the form of narrative , and in the artificial manner of the courtly speech , is interesting because it contains the trial - motive , which ...
... complete story of his wanderings . The Debate between Pride and Lowliness , 2 though largely in the form of narrative , and in the artificial manner of the courtly speech , is interesting because it contains the trial - motive , which ...
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... complete English translation of it was made before 1733 , but the dialogues must have been so widely known in their original form as to have been a real influence in the early sixteenth century . Save for their greater didacticism , the ...
... complete English translation of it was made before 1733 , but the dialogues must have been so widely known in their original form as to have been a real influence in the early sixteenth century . Save for their greater didacticism , the ...
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... complete and radical reforms became bitterly opposed to the High Church wing of their party ; the very name of a bishop was enough to rouse the fiercest ire in their Puritan souls . The strife that resulted from such feelings was all ...
... complete and radical reforms became bitterly opposed to the High Church wing of their party ; the very name of a bishop was enough to rouse the fiercest ire in their Puritan souls . The strife that resulted from such feelings was all ...
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... complete downfall of English Catholicism , the Martin Marprelate controversy had begun . This famous dispute of the years 1588–1590 , made more interesting by the mystery that surrounded the so - called Martin , might easily lure one ...
... complete downfall of English Catholicism , the Martin Marprelate controversy had begun . This famous dispute of the years 1588–1590 , made more interesting by the mystery that surrounded the so - called Martin , might easily lure one ...
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... Complete Angler ( 1653 ) . Its success as a dialogue would seem to be due in part , at least , to the fact that it is not a mere imitation of anything else . It is frankly didactic , and genuinely English . The general plan of this book ...
... Complete Angler ( 1653 ) . Its success as a dialogue would seem to be due in part , at least , to the fact that it is not a mere imitation of anything else . It is frankly didactic , and genuinely English . The general plan of this book ...
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Page 35 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 105 - If the whole of Natural Theology, as some people seem to maintain, resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous, at least undefined proposition, That the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence...
Page 35 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 80 - I mean the arming-wire, through his mouth and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the...
Page 94 - It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
Page 93 - That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what everybody will allow. And it seems no less evident that the various sensations or ideas imprinted on the sense, however blended or combined together (that is, whatever objects they compose), cannot exist otherwise than in a mind perceiving them.
Page 105 - You would perceive, by the sample I have given you, that I make Cleanthes the hero of the dialogue. Whatever you can think of to strengthen that side of the argument, will be most acceptable to me.
Page 97 - ... from whence it rose : its ascent, as well as descent, proceeding from the same uniform law or principle of gravitation. Just so, the same principles which at first view lead to scepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
References to this book
John Bale, a Study in the Minor Literature of the Reformation Jesse W. Harris No preview available - 1940 |