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murmur

formerly, to defame a judge.

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12) He also entitled the eleventh of his possible outlines for tragedies on Old Testament themes, "the murmurers.

The patience to prevent that murmur: the theodicy of John Milton's nineteenth sonnet

who are then the murmurers of "Ce chien est a moi" ("this dog is mine"), itself a citation of Blaise Pascal, but which comes to Woolf, as Phillips points out, via her husband Leonard Woolf's book, Empire and Commerce in Africa (1920)--a book, we know, Virginia Woolf helped to research, closely read twice, and thought "superb" (L2 413).

"Ce chien est a moi": Virginia Woolf and the signifying dog

Among the unsigned satirical poetry printed in Mercurius Reformatus, The Murmurers, in its second, enlarged version, chastised "Grumbletonians or the new Malcontent,"(23) a reference to crescendoing criticism of William and Mary.

GRUB STREET COMMERCE: ADVERTISEMENTS AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY MODERN BRITISH PRESS

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