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 viii
... collection of curious poems , independently of such as the author had introduced in his progress in furtherance of the main designs . The eighth criticises an original novel , on which Shakespeare founded his " Twelfth Night , ” very ...
... collection of curious poems , independently of such as the author had introduced in his progress in furtherance of the main designs . The eighth criticises an original novel , on which Shakespeare founded his " Twelfth Night , ” very ...
Page xix
... collections , or whose dramatic or un- dramatic works have been recently reprinted . You have been so much abroad of late that though of course you must have heard and read a great deal of our Byrons , our Southeys , our Scotts , and ...
... collections , or whose dramatic or un- dramatic works have been recently reprinted . You have been so much abroad of late that though of course you must have heard and read a great deal of our Byrons , our Southeys , our Scotts , and ...
Page xxx
... collected scattered materials into one body . Nearly all his knowledge of the literature of the age of Shakespeare is derived from the British Bibliographer , and pro- ductions of the same class . His illustrations of the manners of the ...
... collected scattered materials into one body . Nearly all his knowledge of the literature of the age of Shakespeare is derived from the British Bibliographer , and pro- ductions of the same class . His illustrations of the manners of the ...
Page xxxvii
... in the course of the evening it was agreed , as the weather was intolerably hot at this season , that they should spend the middle of the day in the library ( if so small but choice a collection of INDUCTION . xxxvii.
... in the course of the evening it was agreed , as the weather was intolerably hot at this season , that they should spend the middle of the day in the library ( if so small but choice a collection of INDUCTION . xxxvii.
Page xxxviii
... collection of books might be so termed ) , while the mornings and even- ings were devoted to other occupations and amuse- ments : among the last was that most picturesque of all enjoyments , sailing , to which Bourne , Elliot , and ...
... collection of books might be so termed ) , while the mornings and even- ings were devoted to other occupations and amuse- ments : among the last was that most picturesque of all enjoyments , sailing , to which Bourne , Elliot , and ...
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