The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.A. Constable & Company, 1820 - English poetry |
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... Bourne they had been in the habit of meeting frequently : within the last year or two , however , Elliot had been ... Bourne's pursuits , directed to obtain a knowledge of the lives and productions of the earlier writers of our country ...
... Bourne they had been in the habit of meeting frequently : within the last year or two , however , Elliot had been ... Bourne's pursuits , directed to obtain a knowledge of the lives and productions of the earlier writers of our country ...
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... BOURNE . I regret that I have not , but two of them may be found in Censura Literaria ( III . 374 ) , though it is to be lamented , that more favourable specimens could not be chosen . W. Percy is the first author , that I remember ...
... BOURNE . I regret that I have not , but two of them may be found in Censura Literaria ( III . 374 ) , though it is to be lamented , that more favourable specimens could not be chosen . W. Percy is the first author , that I remember ...
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... BOURNE . I admit that it is bad ; but the best have failed in this sort of effort , if effort it may be called - witness Spencer's Sonnet before the Life of Scanderbeg ( 1596 ) , only discovered of late years by Waldron . ELLIOT . If it ...
... BOURNE . I admit that it is bad ; but the best have failed in this sort of effort , if effort it may be called - witness Spencer's Sonnet before the Life of Scanderbeg ( 1596 ) , only discovered of late years by Waldron . ELLIOT . If it ...
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... BOURNE . And probably justly , though only that writer's initials are subscribed to an introductory sonnet . Robt . Allot is a joint sonnetteer with E. Guilpin before Markham's " Devereux , " 1597. They were probably friends , and ...
... BOURNE . And probably justly , though only that writer's initials are subscribed to an introductory sonnet . Robt . Allot is a joint sonnetteer with E. Guilpin before Markham's " Devereux , " 1597. They were probably friends , and ...
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... BOURNE . Here , I think , is a tolerably fair specimen of Fitzgeffrey's more restrained style . ELLIOT . Read it . Dr. Johnson , in his preface to Shakespeare , says , that those who endeavour to re- commend our great dramatist by ...
... BOURNE . Here , I think , is a tolerably fair specimen of Fitzgeffrey's more restrained style . ELLIOT . Read it . Dr. Johnson , in his preface to Shakespeare , says , that those who endeavour to re- commend our great dramatist by ...
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