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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... ENGLISH POETS AND POETRY , PARTICULARLY OF THE Reigns of Elizabeth and James E. BY J. PAYNE COLLIER , OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE . " So long they read in those antiquities , That how the time was fled they quite forgate . " Spenser F. Q. B. ...
... ENGLISH POETS AND POETRY , PARTICULARLY OF THE Reigns of Elizabeth and James E. BY J. PAYNE COLLIER , OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE . " So long they read in those antiquities , That how the time was fled they quite forgate . " Spenser F. Q. B. ...
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... English , used at least a century before the publication of Paradise Lost . The four next conversations are devoted to the origin and im- provement of satirical poetry , of which Bishop Hall , with a little of what Lord Bacon calls ...
... English , used at least a century before the publication of Paradise Lost . The four next conversations are devoted to the origin and im- provement of satirical poetry , of which Bishop Hall , with a little of what Lord Bacon calls ...
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... English authors ? As to our language , I am well convinced , though I may be charged with partiality , that it was never more copiously , more vigorously , or more purely written than in the age of Shakespeare . If the minds of men ...
... English authors ? As to our language , I am well convinced , though I may be charged with partiality , that it was never more copiously , more vigorously , or more purely written than in the age of Shakespeare . If the minds of men ...
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... English every way As any common language hath this day . " Here , you see , is the opinion of a man of consider- able classical attainments , living at that time , on this point ; and I might quote Chapman , the trans- lator of Homer ...
... English every way As any common language hath this day . " Here , you see , is the opinion of a man of consider- able classical attainments , living at that time , on this point ; and I might quote Chapman , the trans- lator of Homer ...
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