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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... 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 , that " the great contention of criticism ...
... 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 , that " the great contention of criticism ...
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... hear one of those rare sonnets by W. Percy , if you have preserved any of them in MS . BOURNE . I regret that I have not , but two of them may be found in Censura Literaria ( III . 374 ) , though it is to be lamented , that more ...
... hear one of those rare sonnets by W. Percy , if you have preserved any of them in MS . BOURNE . I regret that I have not , but two of them may be found in Censura Literaria ( III . 374 ) , though it is to be lamented , that more ...
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... hear Percy's Madrigal , and then return to Fitzgeffrey . BOURNE . I wish it better deserved reading : it is worth preserving principally as a curiosity . " To Master Barnabe Barnes , this Madrigall vpon his Booke . If all the world were ...
... hear Percy's Madrigal , and then return to Fitzgeffrey . BOURNE . I wish it better deserved reading : it is worth preserving principally as a curiosity . " To Master Barnabe Barnes , this Madrigall vpon his Booke . If all the world were ...
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... hear it . MORTON . " And have you not heard what Athe- næus relates , how a tavern was by the fancy and imagination of a drunken crew turned into a gally ; who having a tempest in their heads , caused by a sea of drinke within , verily ...
... hear it . MORTON . " And have you not heard what Athe- næus relates , how a tavern was by the fancy and imagination of a drunken crew turned into a gally ; who having a tempest in their heads , caused by a sea of drinke within , verily ...
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... hear it : the opinions of contempo- raries , if not always impartial , must be always worth listening to . BOURNE . The following stanzas refer to the three celebrated poets I have mentioned : Fitzgeffrey is pursuing the apology with ...
... hear it : the opinions of contempo- raries , if not always impartial , must be always worth listening to . BOURNE . The following stanzas refer to the three celebrated poets I have mentioned : Fitzgeffrey is pursuing the apology with ...
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