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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 209 — Chapter V · ELIZABETHAN CRITICISM.

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Not that the phrase is of his invention. It seems to have been a catchword of the time, and occurs in Bale (1543), in Peter Ashton’s version of Jovius (1546), &c.

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