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... vice and affec- tation have vanished off the face of the earth , there will always be scope for the satirist . Dum civitas erit , judicia fient , is true in more ways than one . Law cannot deal with the offences of bad taste . Satire ...
... vice and affec- tation have vanished off the face of the earth , there will always be scope for the satirist . Dum civitas erit , judicia fient , is true in more ways than one . Law cannot deal with the offences of bad taste . Satire ...
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... vice I purposely wrong no man , but observe the laws of that kind of poeme . If any repine thereat , I am sure he is guilty , because he bewrayeth himselfe . ' He shows that he is not of the compromising sort : ' If any man reprove let ...
... vice I purposely wrong no man , but observe the laws of that kind of poeme . If any repine thereat , I am sure he is guilty , because he bewrayeth himselfe . ' He shows that he is not of the compromising sort : ' If any man reprove let ...
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... vice , and vice for vertue still ; Sower for sweet , and good for passing ill . If not , would vice and odious villanie Be still rewarded with high dignity ? Would damned Jovians be of all men praised , And with high honors unto heaven ...
... vice , and vice for vertue still ; Sower for sweet , and good for passing ill . If not , would vice and odious villanie Be still rewarded with high dignity ? Would damned Jovians be of all men praised , And with high honors unto heaven ...
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