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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... Ritson - Chapman's censure of preliminary panegyrics — Golden age of English poesy - The poets applauded by Fitzgeffrey in his Affania , 1601 - Will . Percy , author of " Sonnets to the Fairest Cælia , " 1594 - Barnabe Barnes's " Four ...
... Ritson - Chapman's censure of preliminary panegyrics — Golden age of English poesy - The poets applauded by Fitzgeffrey in his Affania , 1601 - Will . Percy , author of " Sonnets to the Fairest Cælia , " 1594 - Barnabe Barnes's " Four ...
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... Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica gives merely the first part of the title with the date , 1596 . BOURNE . And it says nothing of the commenda- tory poems by Rous and Mychelborne : this looks as if he had never seen the book . ELLIOT . The ...
... Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica gives merely the first part of the title with the date , 1596 . BOURNE . And it says nothing of the commenda- tory poems by Rous and Mychelborne : this looks as if he had never seen the book . ELLIOT . The ...
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... Ritson's compilation is principally defective . MORTON . The labour of one man , however learned , was unequal to the task which was new at the time he undertook it . ELLIOT . Are not these questions about compli- mentary verses and ...
... Ritson's compilation is principally defective . MORTON . The labour of one man , however learned , was unequal to the task which was new at the time he undertook it . ELLIOT . Are not these questions about compli- mentary verses and ...
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... Ritson , and to call him to task for an omission . ELLIOT . Then let me be the first to dismiss him , and all matters connected with dates and editions . BOURNE . With all my heart ; but before we close the British Bibliographer , let ...
... Ritson , and to call him to task for an omission . ELLIOT . Then let me be the first to dismiss him , and all matters connected with dates and editions . BOURNE . With all my heart ; but before we close the British Bibliographer , let ...
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... Ritson will answer the last question , but I do not know who will be able to answer the first . He published , in 1594 , " Sonnets to the fairest Cælia , " of which I have seen several in MS .; they were copied from a printed edition ...
... Ritson will answer the last question , but I do not know who will be able to answer the first . He published , in 1594 , " Sonnets to the fairest Cælia , " of which I have seen several in MS .; they were copied from a printed edition ...
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