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 xlvii
... Thomas Blenerhasset's Legend of Cadwallader , also in the Mirror for Magistrates , and also in blank - verse - Specimen - His pamphlet called " A direction for the Plantation of Ulster , " 1610 - Spenser on the Irish kerns- Abraham ...
... Thomas Blenerhasset's Legend of Cadwallader , also in the Mirror for Magistrates , and also in blank - verse - Specimen - His pamphlet called " A direction for the Plantation of Ulster , " 1610 - Spenser on the Irish kerns- Abraham ...
Page xlviii
... Thomas Heywood's authority for the introduction of the classic measures in his " Apology for Actors , " 1612 - His practice in his " Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas , " 1637 - Aske's Elizabetha triumphans , 1588 , and quota- tion from it ...
... Thomas Heywood's authority for the introduction of the classic measures in his " Apology for Actors , " 1612 - His practice in his " Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas , " 1637 - Aske's Elizabetha triumphans , 1588 , and quota- tion from it ...
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... Thomas Nabbes , and Ben Jonson , cited for a coincidence - Fitzgeffrey's praise of Spenser , Daniel , and Drayton - His compound epithets , and why most young poets em- ploy them - The question whether English be well suited to them ...
... Thomas Nabbes , and Ben Jonson , cited for a coincidence - Fitzgeffrey's praise of Spenser , Daniel , and Drayton - His compound epithets , and why most young poets em- ploy them - The question whether English be well suited to them ...
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... Thomas Heywood's play " The English Traveller , " ( 1633 ) , in which the scene described by Athenæus is humor- ously brought upon the stage . ELLIOT . But , methinks , we are at sea ourselves , and shall soon be beyond our reckoning ...
... Thomas Heywood's play " The English Traveller , " ( 1633 ) , in which the scene described by Athenæus is humor- ously brought upon the stage . ELLIOT . But , methinks , we are at sea ourselves , and shall soon be beyond our reckoning ...
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... Thomas Nabbes , a too obscure poet , who wrote a little afterwards , has a fine passage in his play of Scipio and Hannibal ( 1637 ) . " Fortune's an under power that is her selfe Commanded by desert . ' Tis a meere vainnesse Of our ...
... Thomas Nabbes , a too obscure poet , who wrote a little afterwards , has a fine passage in his play of Scipio and Hannibal ( 1637 ) . " Fortune's an under power that is her selfe Commanded by desert . ' Tis a meere vainnesse Of our ...
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