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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... lines in one of his own exquisite sonnets , I think the 150th . - " In the very refuse of thy deeds There is such strength and warrantise of skill , That in my mind thy worst all best exceeds ! " This , however , I may say , that an ...
... lines in one of his own exquisite sonnets , I think the 150th . - " In the very refuse of thy deeds There is such strength and warrantise of skill , That in my mind thy worst all best exceeds ! " This , however , I may say , that an ...
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... lines I just quoted ? You might guess to eternity : all the in- genuity of the riddle - solvers , from Edipus down to Dame Partlett , would be of no avail . He first gives the passage , and then he adds , with solemn gravity , " Dr ...
... lines I just quoted ? You might guess to eternity : all the in- genuity of the riddle - solvers , from Edipus down to Dame Partlett , would be of no avail . He first gives the passage , and then he adds , with solemn gravity , " Dr ...
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... lines before T. Storer's " Cardinal Wolsey " to Fitzgeffrey , which belong , in fact , to a person signing himself Johannes Sprint . P. 66 , 1. 7. It was omitted to be stated , when speaking of Whetstone's very rare tract on the death ...
... lines before T. Storer's " Cardinal Wolsey " to Fitzgeffrey , which belong , in fact , to a person signing himself Johannes Sprint . P. 66 , 1. 7. It was omitted to be stated , when speaking of Whetstone's very rare tract on the death ...
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... lines in allusion to well known works , 66 Lidgate , Bawldwin , and many writers more The heauie faules of naughtie men haue showne , " & c . It may be added , that the list is very inaccurately quoted in Heliconia , even to the ...
... lines in allusion to well known works , 66 Lidgate , Bawldwin , and many writers more The heauie faules of naughtie men haue showne , " & c . It may be added , that the list is very inaccurately quoted in Heliconia , even to the ...
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... lines by Tho . Mychelborne , with another citation or two from Latin poems on the death of Sir Francis Drake . Mine has only one Latin piece , " In Dracum redivivum Carmen . " It has also verses by Richard and Francis Rous , and three ...
... lines by Tho . Mychelborne , with another citation or two from Latin poems on the death of Sir Francis Drake . Mine has only one Latin piece , " In Dracum redivivum Carmen . " It has also verses by Richard and Francis Rous , and three ...
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