10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE VERY DEVIL»
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the very devil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the very devil and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
D156 To play the (very) Devil 1764 Watts Letter Book 244: The Woman has playd
the Devil at Greenwych & run away. 1770 Johnson Papers 7.484: Playing the
Devil with the Traders. 1777 TNelson in Jefferson Papers 2.3: They play the very
...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
An encouragement for someone to be bold on this one occasion: > 'Come on,
Joe, be a devil and have another drink!' 2 Be the very devil To be very difficult,
awkward, or annoying: > 'My new car is super to drive, but it's so big it's the very
devil ...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare criticism
... 298) Sir Toby assures Fabian; and indeed, after Sir Andrew has his head
bloodied by Sebastian, he is convinced, when he happens upon Cesario again,
that 'He's the very devil incardinate' (v, i, i79-80). Along with the
misapprehensions of ...
Catherine M. S. Alexander, 2003
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
2. of smth too difficult for a person to understand or deal with successfully: Most of
the language was above me, and so I could only get a general impression of his
argument. be a devil be the very devil be a devil I. is used as a humorous ...
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The Comedy of
the Merchant of Venice ... With
the Notes and ...
E. - 6 the Jew is the very devil incarnal ,'] Launcelot in this contradicts himself; but
having just now mentioned the Jew as a kind of devil, he seems to recur to that
idea with peculiar satisfaction, and then, in his blundering manner, unmindf'ul of ...
William Shakespeare, Isaac Ambrose ECCLES, 1805
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The comedies of
The Merchant of Venice, and As you like it, ...
E. <5 tlie Jew is the very devil incarnal ;] Laun- celot in this contradicts himself;
but having just now mentioned the Jew as a kind of devil, he seems to recur to
that idea with peculiar satisfaction, and then, in his blundering manner, unmindful
of ...
William Shakespeare, Ambrose Eccles, 1805
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The Comedy of
the Merchant of Venice ...
is a kind of devil ; and , to run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the fiend,
who, saving your reverence, is the devil himself : Certainly, the Jew is the very
devil incarnal and in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard
conscience ...
William Shakespeare, Ambrose Eccles, 1805
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Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language
Identity is the very Devil and immensely important; very much more so than I
thought. It hangs — like anything else — directly together with the most
signif1cant questions. . . ."" One fruitful way of seeing the later Wittgenstein is, I
think, in terms ...
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Two Boys Trapped in
the Devil's Cauldron
... And while these Monsters Take Human shape their minds Are not of this world
by Already having been taken over by Satanism Worshipping the Very Devil
himself Standing for Everything that Is Against God the Holy Father and Must
never ...
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The history of
the Devil [by D. Defoe].
Are they not facrificing to Venus and Mercury, nay, and the very Devil they dress,
at ? Let any Man impartially survey the Church- Gestures, the Air, the Postures
and the Behaviour j let them keep an exact Roll, and if I do not shew him two
Devil ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE VERY DEVIL»
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the very devil is used in the context of the following news items.
'I wanted like the very devil to kiss you' - Errol Flynn's letters to his …
They're the red-hot letters written by a Hollywood screen legend who had fallen in love with a Midland lady. Errol Flynn was appearing at the Birmingham Rep ... «Birmingham Mail, Jul 15»
God particle or the very devil?
Stephen Hawking's declaration that the “God particle” has the potential to destroy the universe is now trending amidst eager readers. Can this really happen and ... «The Hindu, Sep 14»
