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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... praise that you can bestow upon them that I will not immediately allow to be well deserved : so far are they above rivalship , that others will seldom bear even comparison . I do not know any quotation more applicable to Shakespeare ...
... praise that you can bestow upon them that I will not immediately allow to be well deserved : so far are they above rivalship , that others will seldom bear even comparison . I do not know any quotation more applicable to Shakespeare ...
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... praise of the study of poetry - Fitzgeffrey's Dedicatory Sonnet - whether he had written any thing before 1596 - His apology - Dr . Johnson's opinion of extracts - Quotation from , and criticism upon , Fitzgeffrey's poem - Why ...
... praise of the study of poetry - Fitzgeffrey's Dedicatory Sonnet - whether he had written any thing before 1596 - His apology - Dr . Johnson's opinion of extracts - Quotation from , and criticism upon , Fitzgeffrey's poem - Why ...
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... praise of J. Markham -Markham's frauds on Tofte and Riche - George Whetstone's poem on the death of Sir P. Sidney - Churchyard's account of his death - Quotations from Whetstone's poem - Spenser's " Shepherd's Calendar " attributed by ...
... praise of J. Markham -Markham's frauds on Tofte and Riche - George Whetstone's poem on the death of Sir P. Sidney - Churchyard's account of his death - Quotations from Whetstone's poem - Spenser's " Shepherd's Calendar " attributed by ...
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... praise it is introduced into his play of Byron's Conspiracie , Act . 3. ( 1608 ) . " Be circumspect , for to a credulous eye He comes inuisible , vail'd with flatterie ; And flatterers looke like friends , as wolues like dogges 8 FIRST ...
... praise it is introduced into his play of Byron's Conspiracie , Act . 3. ( 1608 ) . " Be circumspect , for to a credulous eye He comes inuisible , vail'd with flatterie ; And flatterers looke like friends , as wolues like dogges 8 FIRST ...
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... praise , So farre from hate of praises to his face , That he praies men to praise him , and they ride Before with trumpets in their mouths , proclaiming Life to the holy furie of his lines ; " and so on for about eight or ten lines ...
... praise , So farre from hate of praises to his face , That he praies men to praise him , and they ride Before with trumpets in their mouths , proclaiming Life to the holy furie of his lines ; " and so on for about eight or ten lines ...
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