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 vii
... observation , and at the same time a greater facility of excursion from one book or from one subject to another . It is a saying of refined antiquity , that a meeting of friends should never consist of more than the Muses , or of fewer ...
... observation , and at the same time a greater facility of excursion from one book or from one subject to another . It is a saying of refined antiquity , that a meeting of friends should never consist of more than the Muses , or of fewer ...
Page xvii
... observe the difference between the burden he has imposed upon the one and upon the other nothing heavier than a barge can proceed upwards through the arches , while ships of war and merchantmen of immense tonnage hourly sail down- wards ...
... observe the difference between the burden he has imposed upon the one and upon the other nothing heavier than a barge can proceed upwards through the arches , while ships of war and merchantmen of immense tonnage hourly sail down- wards ...
Page xviii
... observation un- answerable , that had they deserved to be as well known as the poets I have mentioned , they would not for so many years have been consigned to " dusty death . " As it is , nearly all that people hear of them is what the ...
... observation un- answerable , that had they deserved to be as well known as the poets I have mentioned , they would not for so many years have been consigned to " dusty death . " As it is , nearly all that people hear of them is what the ...
Page xxii
... small reprint of a scarce volume of Satires , written about the year 1600 , observing , in his preface , upon the great utility of such un- dertakings . as to the knowledge to be derived from old books xxii INDUCTION .
... small reprint of a scarce volume of Satires , written about the year 1600 , observing , in his preface , upon the great utility of such un- dertakings . as to the knowledge to be derived from old books xxii INDUCTION .
Page xli
... observe , that the quotations from Marston are from a MS . måde by the author from the original edition some years ago : he has every reason to believe however that his transcript is accurate . P. 276 , l . 6. Those who wish to see the ...
... observe , that the quotations from Marston are from a MS . måde by the author from the original edition some years ago : he has every reason to believe however that his transcript is accurate . P. 276 , l . 6. Those who wish to see the ...
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