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 xxv
... kind of knowledge required for the task he undertook , he had learning and considerable ingenuity , even in his blunders . It is unfortunate that so many qualifications should be necessary for a commentator , and that so few should ever ...
... kind of knowledge required for the task he undertook , he had learning and considerable ingenuity , even in his blunders . It is unfortunate that so many qualifications should be necessary for a commentator , and that so few should ever ...
Page xxvi
... kind of applause that might not deservedly be applied to Shakespeare ; and I follow it up by subjoining , that there is no kind of abuse in which I cannot heartily join against his commentators : I could find in my heart to hack and hew ...
... kind of applause that might not deservedly be applied to Shakespeare ; and I follow it up by subjoining , that there is no kind of abuse in which I cannot heartily join against his commentators : I could find in my heart to hack and hew ...
Page xxxv
... kind ( added Morton ) than his two plays of the Conspiracy and Tragedy of the Duke of Byron ? I think I do not speak with too much partiality when I say that they contain as noble passages as are to be found in any dramatic poet ...
... kind ( added Morton ) than his two plays of the Conspiracy and Tragedy of the Duke of Byron ? I think I do not speak with too much partiality when I say that they contain as noble passages as are to be found in any dramatic poet ...
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... 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 passage in his address - Speech of the " Fairy Queene " in the same - George Chapman - Francis ...
... 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 passage in his address - Speech of the " Fairy Queene " in the same - George Chapman - Francis ...
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... kind are forced and unnatural — Most impudent plagiary by R. Junius from Owen Feltham - Rev . H. J. Todd's praise of Junius - a passage by Junius on which Cowley might have founded his Naufragium Joculare - Thos . Heywood's " English ...
... kind are forced and unnatural — Most impudent plagiary by R. Junius from Owen Feltham - Rev . H. J. Todd's praise of Junius - a passage by Junius on which Cowley might have founded his Naufragium Joculare - Thos . Heywood's " English ...
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