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 xviii
... death . " As it is , nearly all that people hear of them is what the commentators on Shakespeare have been pleased to quote in the way of illustration in their precious notes . Dr. Johnson might well say , in reference to this subject ...
... death . " As it is , nearly all that people hear of them is what the commentators on Shakespeare have been pleased to quote in the way of illustration in their precious notes . Dr. Johnson might well say , in reference to this subject ...
Page xl
... death of Sir P. Sidney , where Spenser's " Shepherd's Calendar " is unaccountably attributed to Sidney , that the author , in an address prefixed , excuses the delay that had taken place , and mentions one advantage arising from it ...
... death of Sir P. Sidney , where Spenser's " Shepherd's Calendar " is unaccountably attributed to Sidney , that the author , in an address prefixed , excuses the delay that had taken place , and mentions one advantage arising from it ...
Page xlii
... death of the good L. Dyer , " is not known . This is a mistake , for I have seen a copy of the tract very lately : it bears date in 1582 , and purports to be a Remembrance of Sir James Dyer , the judge . It opens with these lines in ...
... death of the good L. Dyer , " is not known . This is a mistake , for I have seen a copy of the tract very lately : it bears date in 1582 , and purports to be a Remembrance of Sir James Dyer , the judge . It opens with these lines in ...
Page xlviii
... death before 1593 -Comparison between Marlow and Thomas May - Anonymous production of the same kind of verse , Queen Elizabeth's Enter- tainment by the Earl of Hertford , " in 1591 - Description of a poet from it , and quotation of a ...
... death before 1593 -Comparison between Marlow and Thomas May - Anonymous production of the same kind of verse , Queen Elizabeth's Enter- tainment by the Earl of Hertford , " in 1591 - Description of a poet from it , and quotation of a ...
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... Death of Sir Francis Drake , 1596 General criticism upon it - Youth of the author - George Chapman's attack upon hypercritical readers - Reference to the " British Bibliographer " -Two editions of Fitzgeffrey's poem in the same year ...
... Death of Sir Francis Drake , 1596 General criticism upon it - Youth of the author - George Chapman's attack upon hypercritical readers - Reference to the " British Bibliographer " -Two editions of Fitzgeffrey's poem in the same year ...
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