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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... copied from Lodge's " Rosalynd , " with variations almost ad lib . 66 P. 166 , l . 26. For " Portugal " read " Rome . ” P. 189 , 1..7 . Every body knows what a contest took place about this date on the merits and demerits of tobacco ...
... copied from Lodge's " Rosalynd , " with variations almost ad lib . 66 P. 166 , l . 26. For " Portugal " read " Rome . ” P. 189 , 1..7 . Every body knows what a contest took place about this date on the merits and demerits of tobacco ...
Page xli
... copy of " the Returne of the Knight of the Poste from Hell , " at the sale of Mr. Isaac Reed's books , but it is plain that its contents had not been examined , as in Cens . Lit. VII . 11. ( 1st edit . ) it is mentioned as one of Nash's ...
... copy of " the Returne of the Knight of the Poste from Hell , " at the sale of Mr. Isaac Reed's books , but it is plain that its contents had not been examined , as in Cens . Lit. VII . 11. ( 1st edit . ) it is mentioned as one of Nash's ...
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... copy dated in 1611 , with a preface and illustrative notes which show the editor to be " well seen " in the literature and habits of the times to which the epigrams and satires refer . VOL . II . P. 37 , 1. 22. Whetstone's " Rocke of ...
... copy dated in 1611 , with a preface and illustrative notes which show the editor to be " well seen " in the literature and habits of the times to which the epigrams and satires refer . VOL . II . P. 37 , 1. 22. Whetstone's " Rocke of ...
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... copy in the British Museum of the first seven books of Chapman's Iliad - Fitzgeffrey's eulogy of the stage - poets of his time - Coincidence between Shakespeare and Fitzgeffrey - Burlesque vulgarism of the latter - Thos . Greepe's ...
... copy in the British Museum of the first seven books of Chapman's Iliad - Fitzgeffrey's eulogy of the stage - poets of his time - Coincidence between Shakespeare and Fitzgeffrey - Burlesque vulgarism of the latter - Thos . Greepe's ...
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... copy has any preface or introductory matter of the kind in prose : after the title comes the sonnet here quoted by T. P. " to the beavteous and vertuous Lady Elizabeth late wife to the highly renowmed Sir Francis Drake deceased ; " and ...
... copy has any preface or introductory matter of the kind in prose : after the title comes the sonnet here quoted by T. P. " to the beavteous and vertuous Lady Elizabeth late wife to the highly renowmed Sir Francis Drake deceased ; " and ...
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