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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... looks as if he had never seen the book . ELLIOT . The omission is not very important . BOURNE . NO : these solicited panegyrics are sel- dom of much value . Chapman , whom I before quoted , is rather severe upon the poets , his con ...
... looks as if he had never seen the book . ELLIOT . The omission is not very important . BOURNE . NO : these solicited panegyrics are sel- dom of much value . Chapman , whom I before quoted , is rather severe upon the poets , his con ...
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... look with more equal eyes upon the rival reigns of Elizabeth and Anne . Read the preface the book is before you . ELLIOT . I recollect two excellent lines in an old play , quoted in the critical selection by Mr. C. Lamb , perhaps not ...
... look with more equal eyes upon the rival reigns of Elizabeth and Anne . Read the preface the book is before you . ELLIOT . I recollect two excellent lines in an old play , quoted in the critical selection by Mr. C. Lamb , perhaps not ...
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... look at this glorious sample of the mock sublime , by a man of the name of Thomas Greepe . ELLIOT . I hope it is that sort of unconscious bur- lesque which makes the reader almost die with laughter , while the author imagines that he ...
... look at this glorious sample of the mock sublime , by a man of the name of Thomas Greepe . ELLIOT . I hope it is that sort of unconscious bur- lesque which makes the reader almost die with laughter , while the author imagines that he ...
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... look you sir , I beseech your Worship , first pardon my rudenesse , for my extreams make me boulder then I would be : I am a poor gentleman and a schollar , and now most unfortunately falne into the hands of unmercifull officers ...
... look you sir , I beseech your Worship , first pardon my rudenesse , for my extreams make me boulder then I would be : I am a poor gentleman and a schollar , and now most unfortunately falne into the hands of unmercifull officers ...
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... look at George Peele's poem , which you undertook to produce . ELLIOT . It is astonishing how soon one begins to take an interest in these men and their writings . BOURNE . Before we have done , I have little doubt you will become as ...
... look at George Peele's poem , which you undertook to produce . ELLIOT . It is astonishing how soon one begins to take an interest in these men and their writings . BOURNE . Before we have done , I have little doubt you will become as ...
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