...Ascham says, " I was once in Italy myself, but I thank God my abode there was but nine days ; and yet I saw in that little time, in one city, more liberty...tell of in our noble city of London in nine years." He quotes triumphantly the proverb, — Ingleze italianato, diavolo incarnato. A century later, the...

...Venice, in particular, had an evil reputation. There, as Ascham says, he saw in nine days' sojourn " more liberty to sin than ever I heard tell of in our noble city of London in nine years." He admits, however, that while he knows of many who " returned out of Italy worse transformed than...

...LUTHER. " I was once in Italy myself; but I thank God my abode there was but nine days ; and yet I saw in that little time, in one city, more liberty...tell of in our noble city of London in nine years." — ROGER ASCHAM. " Though war is so cruel, that it becomes wild beasts rather than men, so pestilential...

...marginal note on p. 165. INTRO- blood. Ascham was in Italy nine days, ' and yet,' he says, ' I DUCTION ' saw in that little time, in one city, more liberty...heard tell of in our noble city of London in nine ' year. I saw it was there as free to sin, not only without ' all punishment, but also without any...

...filled him with anxiety. He once spent nine days in Venice, and in that little time he saw in that one city "more liberty to sin than ever I heard tell of in our noble city of London in nine years." "Time was when Italy and Rome have been to the great good of us that now live, the best breeders and...

..." tempestuous with passion and with crime." Roger Ascham records : " I saw in nine days, in [that] one city, more liberty to sin than ever I heard tell of in our noble city of London in nine year." Hoby passed three and a half years in foreign travel. He sawmuch and learned much, and must...

...Shakspeare, 1807, i. 242).] 1. ["Although 1 was in Italic only ix. days, I saw, in that little tyme, more liberty to sin than ever I heard tell of in our noble citie of London inix. yeares." — Schoolmaster, bk. i. ad fin. By Roger Ascham, ] tf7"^ &e »i- y/?...

...Ascham says, " I was once in Italy myself, but I thank God my abode there was but nine days ; and yet I saw in that little time, in one city, more liberty...tell of in our noble city of London in nine years." He quotes triumphantly the proverb, — Inglese italianato,diavolo incarnato. A century later, the...

...sentences : "I was once in Italy myself; but I thank God my abode there was but nine days. And yet I saw in that little time in one city more liberty to...tell of in our noble city of London in nine years." 2 It is not possible to find in modern literature pictures of a society moving on as low a level of...

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