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" For that which all men then did vertue call, Is now cald vice ; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight vertue, and so us'd of all : Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right... "
A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Spenser. Shakespeare ... - Page 289
1792
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Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...then did vertue call Is now cald vice; and that which vice is bight Is now hight virtue, and so us'd of all. Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right As all things else in time are chaunged quight. [5, Proem, 4.1-5] Here the first two chiasms make a larger one as...
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Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic

Mihoko Suzuki - 1989 - 292 pages
...did vertue call, Is now cald vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight vertue, and so us'd of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quight. Ne wonder; for the heavens revolution Is wandred farre from where...
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Reading Between the Lines

Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 1993 - 358 pages
...From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quite. If Artegall cites Plato's Laws on the subject of avoiding change,...
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Historical Criticism and the Challenge of Theory

Janet Levarie Smarr - 1993 - 238 pages
...From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quite. The result is, at the very least, an incoherent sign system, a problem...
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Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English

Judith H. Anderson - 1996 - 372 pages
...From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quight. Ne wonder; for the heauens reuolution Is wandred farre, from where...
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Polliticke Courtier: Spenser's The Faerie Queene as a Rhetoric of Justice

Michael F. N. Dixon - 1996 - 260 pages
...such an harmonious coda to Book IV dissolves into a sharply dissonant chord with the Proem to Book V. Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quight. Ne wonder; for the heauens reuolution Is wandred farre from where...
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Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688

Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier - 1996 - 312 pages
...Stony Age where such notions of truth have been turned upside down, "vertue ... Is now cald vice . . . Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right,/ As all things else in time are chaunged quight (v, Proem, 4). The reader is informed that the distinction between...
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Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 632 pages
...did vertue call, Is now cald vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight vertue, and so vs'd of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quight. Ne wonder; for the heauens reuolution Is wandred farre from, where...
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Spenser's Supreme Fiction: Platonic Natural Philosophy and The Faerie Queene

Jon A. Quitslund - 2001 - 406 pages
...will soon be rotten' (IV i 51.5), as Blandamour says to Scudamour; the poet himself complains that 'Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, / As all things else in time are chaunged quight,' far gone from the time when 'all things freely grew out of the ground'...
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The Cambridge Companion to Spenser

Andrew Hadfield - 2001 - 302 pages
...vertue call, / Is now cald vice; and that which vice was hight, / Is now hight vertue, and so us'd of all: / Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right' (v, proem, 4). There is a strategically placed semantic ambiguity surrounding the verb 'us'd' here:...
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