Spenser's Defense of Lord Grey

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University of Illinois, 1919 - 75 páginas
 

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Página 165 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Página 155 - Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd, Of that same time when no more Change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things, firmely stayd Upon the pillours of Eternity, That is contrayr to Mutabilitie ; For all that moveth doth in Change delight : But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight : O ! that great Sabaoth God, grant me that Sabaoths sight ! COMPLAINT OF THALIA (COMEDY).
Página 168 - The one, that consciences are not to be forced, but to be won and reduced by the force of truth, with the aid of time and the use of all good means of instruction and persuasion.
Página 168 - Lord, the state of the world is marvellously changed when we true Englishmen have cause, for our own quietness, to wish good success to a French King and a King of Scots; and yet they both differ, one from the other, in profession of religion.
Página 176 - The passage in question reads:—"dementia est temperantia animi in potestate ulciscendi vel lenitas superioris adversus inferiorem in constituendis poenis.
Página 205 - So there a while they afterwards remained, Him to refresh, and her late wounds to heale : During which space she there as Princess rained, And changing all that forme of common-weale The liberty of women did repeale, Which they had long usurpt; and, them restoring To mens subjection, did true Justice deale, That all they, as a Goddesse her adoring, Her wisedome did admire, and hearkned to her bring.
Página 205 - When they have shaken off the shamefast band, With which wise Nature did them strongly bynd, T'obay the heasts 1 of mans well ruling hand, That then all rule and reason they withstand, To purchase a licentious libertie. But vertuous women wisely understand, That they were borne to base humilitie, Unlesse the heavens them lift to lawfull soveraintie.
Página 166 - God grant that we may contend with other churches, as the vine with the olive, which of us beareth best fruit ; and not as the brier with the thistle, which of us is most unprofitable.
Página 166 - So likewise if a preacher preach with care and meditation (I speak not of the vain scholastical manner of preaching, but soundly indeed, ordering the matter he handleth distinctly...

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