 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Staff, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Staff - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 370 pages
...Book thus put in every vulgar hand, Which each presum'd he best cou'd understand, The Common Rule was made the common Prey; And at the mercy of the Rabble lay. (2:121,ll.400-3). The 'Common Rule,' perhaps the 'Golden Rule' of the Bible, that doctrine of the reversibility... | |
 | George Douglas Atkins - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 196 pages
...Book thus put in every vulgar hand, Which each presum'd he best cou'd understand, The Common Rule was made the common Prey; And at the mercy of the Rabble lay. (398—403) Dryden then specifies how "the private Spirit" functioned when liberated and made the arbiter... | |
 | Arthur McCalla - Religion - 2006 - 244 pages
...Book thus put in every vulgar hand. Which each presumed he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey; And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender Page with horny fists was galled; And he was gifted most that loudest bawled; The Spirit gave the doctoral degree:... | |
 | James L. Kugel - Religion - 2007 - 850 pages
...book thus put in every vulgar hand, Which each presum'd he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey, And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender page with horny fists was gall'd, And he was gifted most that loudest bawl'd: The spirit gave the doctoral degree,... | |
 | John Dryden - Poetry - 2002 - 612 pages
...book thus put in every vulgar hand, Which each presumed he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey, And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender page with horny fists was galled, 405 And he was gifted most that loudest bawled: The spirit gave the doctoral degree,... | |
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Which each presum'd he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey ; And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender page with... 
