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The final suggestion that even the devil might perhaps repent and escape from ' yon den ' is not the mere sentimentality that some critics have believed it to be : it is a satiric thrust at the Calvinist view adroitly disguised as a ...
The final suggestion that even the devil might perhaps repent and escape from ' yon den ' is not the mere sentimentality that some critics have believed it to be : it is a satiric thrust at the Calvinist view adroitly disguised as a ...
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The poem ends with a simple blessing and a final twist in the tail which completely removes any suggestion of pomposity from the moralizing : In ploughman phrase , ' God send you speed , ' Still daily to grow wiser ; And may ye better ...
The poem ends with a simple blessing and a final twist in the tail which completely removes any suggestion of pomposity from the moralizing : In ploughman phrase , ' God send you speed , ' Still daily to grow wiser ; And may ye better ...
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... and from an innate dexterity in secret Mischief which he possesses , & a certain hypocritical gravity as he looks on the consequences , I have no small hopes of him in the sacerdotal line . - The suggestion that he ...
... and from an innate dexterity in secret Mischief which he possesses , & a certain hypocritical gravity as he looks on the consequences , I have no small hopes of him in the sacerdotal line . - The suggestion that he ...
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