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... thought he practised what he intended to do when the plot should take effect ; that is , to hack and hew , kill and destroy , all eminent persons of a different religion from himself . " Caulfield's History of the Gunpowder Plot . + The ...
... thought he practised what he intended to do when the plot should take effect ; that is , to hack and hew , kill and destroy , all eminent persons of a different religion from himself . " Caulfield's History of the Gunpowder Plot . + The ...
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... thought , their puerile ex- travagance of conceit , and that structure of verse , which , as the poet himself says of Holydays trans- lations , has nothing of verse in it except the worst part of it - the rhime , and that far from being ...
... thought , their puerile ex- travagance of conceit , and that structure of verse , which , as the poet himself says of Holydays trans- lations , has nothing of verse in it except the worst part of it - the rhime , and that far from being ...
... thought , like the the tin- ker at the Taming of the Shrew , that this same paternal and maternal grandfather ; but neither were men of mark or eminence : " But though he spares no waste of words or conscience , He wants the Tory turn ...
... thoughts , expressed in harsh and bombastic language . But this style of poetry , although it was for a time revived , and indeed continued to be occa- sionally employed even to the end of the eigh- teenth century , had too slight ...
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... thought it necessary , in addressing him , to imitate the " strong verses , " which were then ad- mired . According to the fashion of the times , such copies of occasional verses were rewarded by a gratuity from the person to whom they ...
... thought it necessary , in addressing him , to imitate the " strong verses , " which were then ad- mired . According to the fashion of the times , such copies of occasional verses were rewarded by a gratuity from the person to whom they ...
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