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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Page xviii
... Chapman , Drayton , and Nash , to Greene , Lodge , Hall , Mar- ston , Peele , Marlow , Daniel , and perhaps a hundred others ? You may spare yourself the trouble of going through a list of names , many of which are quite as new to me as ...
... Chapman , Drayton , and Nash , to Greene , Lodge , Hall , Mar- ston , Peele , Marlow , Daniel , and perhaps a hundred others ? You may spare yourself the trouble of going through a list of names , many of which are quite as new to me as ...
Page xxii
... Chapman , the trans- lator of Homer , and various others , who have borne testimony to the fulness , strength , dignity , and beauty of their native tongue - testimony too , that to the present hour has not been contradicted . But ...
... Chapman , the trans- lator of Homer , and various others , who have borne testimony to the fulness , strength , dignity , and beauty of their native tongue - testimony too , that to the present hour has not been contradicted . But ...
Page xxxv
... Chapman was unquestionably unequal , it would be a miracle if he were not , but an unfounded prejudice has been created against him in some minds , which know nothing more of his writings than what Dryden says of his Bussy d'Ambois . I ...
... Chapman was unquestionably unequal , it would be a miracle if he were not , but an unfounded prejudice has been created against him in some minds , which know nothing more of his writings than what Dryden says of his Bussy d'Ambois . I ...
Page xlviii
... Chapman - Francis Sabie's productions , and particularly his " Fisherman's Tale " and " Floras Fortune , " 1595 , in blank - verse - Sabie's poetical experiments in hexameters , blank - verse and rhyme , the last in a work only recently ...
... Chapman - Francis Sabie's productions , and particularly his " Fisherman's Tale " and " Floras Fortune , " 1595 , in blank - verse - Sabie's poetical experiments in hexameters , blank - verse and rhyme , the last in a work only recently ...
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... Chapman's attack upon hypercritical readers - Reference to the " British Bibliographer " -Two editions of Fitzgeffrey's poem in the same year - Differences between them , and commendatory poems omitted by Ritson - Chapman's censure of ...
... Chapman's attack upon hypercritical readers - Reference to the " British Bibliographer " -Two editions of Fitzgeffrey's poem in the same year - Differences between them , and commendatory poems omitted by Ritson - Chapman's censure of ...
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Ben Jonson Bibliographer blank verse BOURNE called certainly Chapman copy curious death DECAMERON Diogenes Donne doth Drayton edition ELLIOT English satirist epigrams Epistle extracts Fitzgeffrey Francis Meres George Chapman George Peele giue Goddard Greene's hath haue hear heauen Heywood John Marston John Webster kind Latin lines liue Lodge's Lord loue Marlow Marston mean mentioned Mirror for Magistrates Momus MORTON Muses Nash night noble observe Parasitaster passage Peele Peele's perhaps pieces Pigmalions play poem Poesie poet POETICAL DECAMERON poetry praise printed probably production prose Queen quotation quoted rarity recollect remarkable reprinted rhyme rime Ritson satires satirist Satyres seems Shakespeare Shepherd's Calendar Sidney Sir Francis Drake sonnet speaking specimen Spenser stanza suppose sweete thee thing Thomas thou tion tract translation vertue vnto vpon Webster Whetstone words worth writers written wrote