Read full poem →publisher, and £iQO for the banders to the press
of those "seditious and scandalous libels."*
In a letter written in June, Marvell says that
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Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal
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. scandalousconduct scandalousstories scandalousbehavior scandalouslife scandalous
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Poetry examples for “scandalous”
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Read full poem →ing to The Unfortunate Traveller; actually his fame was a product of
his invective against Harvey— so scandalous the flyting became that
in 1599 all the books of both Avere ordered seized and no new ones
Read full poem →becoming bishops _in partibus infidelium_. The poet goes on to state
the scandalous materials with which it has been the universal custom
of Britain to supply the population of her colonies; the very dregs
Read full poem →to encourage and justify these violent measures, he published his
famous treatise, entitled, "The First Century of Scandalous Malignant
Priests, made and admitted into benefices by the Prelates, London,
Read full poem →Grammont, in Andrew Marvell's works, and in Aubrey's letters, ii. 319,
many scandalous anecdotes respecting Denham, are reported. ED.]