10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISDEVOTION»
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misdevotion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ...
A place, where misdevotion frames A thousand prayers, t: saints, whose very
names The church knew not, heaven knows not yet. Donne. MISDI'ET, n. «. Mis
and diet. Improper food. A dropsy through his 8esh did flow. Which by misdiet
daily ...
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington), 1839
2
Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
If this fall in a time or land Where misdevotion doth command, Then he that digs
us up will bring Us to the Bishop and the King 15 To make us relics; then Thou
shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I A something else thereby. All women shall
adore ...
What is left behind in the narrative isan assortment of meaningless fragments of
bright hairand bone thatare misinterpreted by 'misdevotion,' the 'idolatry'the
speaker foresees and preventsin 'TheFuneral.' The remainder thatis the
poemerases ...
Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone, 2003
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The London encyclopaedia: or Universal dictionary of ...
A place, where misdevotion frames A thousand prayers, t: saints, whose very
names The church knew not, heaven knows not yet. Donne. MISDI'ET, ». «. Mis
and diet. Improper food. A dropsy through his flesh did flow, Which by misdiet
daily ...
5
Tulane Studies in English
"M/s-devotion," devotion to a false ideal, will yield mM-interpreta- tion of the relic
they have turned up. Roman Catholic "misdevotion" to relics is not the satirical
point; it is merely a familiar analogue to that future age's misdevotion and idolatry,
...
6
Kinde pitty and brave scorn: John Donne's satyres
Laughing at his countrymen's comic ambitions and scorning their tragic
misdevotion while exhorting them to realize "worthy" (6) moral alternatives,
Donne's satirist provides in his own meditation a model of devotional virtus. Just
as the Roman ...
7
The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life
... longing for it, to heaven is gone, Where she receives, and gives addition. Here
in a place, where misdevotion frames A thousand prayers to saints, whose very
names The ancient church knew not, heaven knows not yet : And where, what ...
John Donne, Henry Alford, 1839
8
The prose works of John Milton
We cry out sacrilege and misdevotion against those who in zeal have
demolished the dens and cages of her unclean wallowings. We stand for a
popish liturgy as for the ark of our covenant. And so little does it appear our
prayers are from the ...
John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner, 1848
9
Ethical Religion: Its Historical Sources, Its Elements, Its ...
... the rage of the New England clergy against Thomas Jefferson as an American
Marat, the bitter and wholly undeserved sneer of Theodore Roosevelt in calling
Thomas Paine "a dirty little atheist," the sad misdevotion of Bryan's last days to ...
David Saville Muzzey, 1943
10
The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His ...
He saw some Israelites go ; he thought all would go : he saw the Philistines come
; he saw Samuel came not : his diffidence was guilty of his misdevotion. There is
no sin, that hath not its ground from unbelief : this, as it was the first infection of ...
Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, 1808
