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The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and ... - Page 26
by William Shakespeare - 1765
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Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection ...

1856 - 570 pages
...thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on. B elUSUm, — Shakspeare. IQANGrEROUS Conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which,...
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The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight, Volumes 17-22

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by au enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of whore-master mab, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge...
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The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine ACT I. SCENE in. thrusting on. An admirable evasion of •whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1864 - 492 pages
...thieves, and traitors by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, antL adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on," — all prove Shakspere to have been a moral teacher. Many of our opponents may, perchance,...
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King Lear and the Gods

William R. Elton - 1980 - 388 pages
...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge...
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English Books and Readers 1603-1640: Being a Study in the History of the ...

H. S. Bennett - 1989 - 276 pages
...knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.' These little pamphlets of some twenty-four pages contained much factual information...
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Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History

Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - 1991 - 364 pages
...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting in. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge...
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The Masks of King Lear

Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 456 pages
...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge...
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The First Quarto of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...thieves, and treacherers by spiritual predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers 100 by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man to lay his goatish disposition to the charge...
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Shakespeare's Universal Wolf: Studies in Early Modern Reification

Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 pages
...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his guatish disposition on the charge...
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