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Page 112
... idea of a new beginning is a seductive one , especially when that new beginning is , paradoxically , seen as the re- turn to an imagined purer past state . The hopes centred upon Henry and the distress at his death can thus be ...
... idea of a new beginning is a seductive one , especially when that new beginning is , paradoxically , seen as the re- turn to an imagined purer past state . The hopes centred upon Henry and the distress at his death can thus be ...
Page 135
... idea of sexual licence and the associated idea of greater freedom for women were both commonplace accusations against puritans . To royalists , such ideas represent variations of that opposition to tradition which they insisted on ...
... idea of sexual licence and the associated idea of greater freedom for women were both commonplace accusations against puritans . To royalists , such ideas represent variations of that opposition to tradition which they insisted on ...
Page 163
... idea of a Catholic threat as dispelling such an idea . And if this seems some way from mock - heroic as usually understood , it should be added that it can be viewed as the apotheosis of mock - heroic , in that it tantalizingly presents ...
... idea of a Catholic threat as dispelling such an idea . And if this seems some way from mock - heroic as usually understood , it should be added that it can be viewed as the apotheosis of mock - heroic , in that it tantalizingly presents ...
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