 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 pages
...thus put in every vulgar hand, 400 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 ; 405 The spirit gave the doctoral degree,... | |
 | S. L. Greenslade - Religion - 1975 - 660 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,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Book thus put in every vulgar hand. Which each presum'd he best cou'd understand, The Common Rule was er brooȜ . homey Fists was gual'd; And he was gifted most that loudest baul'd: The Spirit gave the Doctoral Degree:... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...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." And in perhaps the most subtle moment in all of Dryden's polemical writing, the opening to Absalom... | |
 | David Haley - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 316 pages
...himself as cheap as e'er he cou'd" (392-97). With the Bible in every vulgar hand, "The Common Rule was made the common Prey; / And at the mercy of the Rabble lay," while "men wou'd still be itching to expound." Dryden's short history of biblical hermeneutics concludes... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2001 - 394 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,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...thus put in every vulgar hand, 400 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;... | |
 | Sharon Achinstein - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 330 pages
...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" (400-03). The "common rule," perhaps the "Golden rule" of the Bible, that doctrine of the reversibility... | |
 | Anthony W. Marx - Political Science - 2005 - 288 pages
...Book thus put in every vulgar hand, With each presumed he best could understand, The Common rule was made the common prey And at the mercy of the rabble lay. 132 Literacy then had either a divisive or unifying tendency depending on the context and purposes... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 322 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. (lines 400-3) The only solution is to avoid each extreme, to remember that "Faith is not built on disquisitions... | |
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