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 xxiii
... seen somewhere quoted . Painter , too ( subjoined Morton ) , in his " Palace of Pleasure , " that work to which Shakespeare and several of our old dramatists were so much indebted , has a remarkable sentence on the pious necessity of ...
... seen somewhere quoted . Painter , too ( subjoined Morton ) , in his " Palace of Pleasure , " that work to which Shakespeare and several of our old dramatists were so much indebted , has a remarkable sentence on the pious necessity of ...
Page xxviii
... seen it said of some writer of the middle age , who had met with a really learned and efficient scholiast , that the book itself well deserved to be burnt but for the notes upon it ; and really had the plays been written by any other ...
... seen it said of some writer of the middle age , who had met with a really learned and efficient scholiast , that the book itself well deserved to be burnt but for the notes upon it ; and really had the plays been written by any other ...
Page xxix
... seen packages of wool pinned up with skewers . " An involuntary fit of laughter , that made the very shores re - echo , here burst from Bourne and Morton , in which Elliot joined . The boatmen looked up astonished , and so much forgot ...
... seen packages of wool pinned up with skewers . " An involuntary fit of laughter , that made the very shores re - echo , here burst from Bourne and Morton , in which Elliot joined . The boatmen looked up astonished , and so much forgot ...
Page xlii
... seen " in the literature and habits of the times to which the epigrams and satires refer . VOL . II . P. 37 , 1. 22. Whetstone's " Rocke of Regard " was printed in 1576 , Part IV . of which contains what is here alluded to ; it is under ...
... seen " in the literature and habits of the times to which the epigrams and satires refer . VOL . II . P. 37 , 1. 22. Whetstone's " Rocke of Regard " was printed in 1576 , Part IV . of which contains what is here alluded to ; it is under ...
Page xliv
... seen both pamphlets . P. 182. 1. 15. Dele " MORTON . " " P. 256. 1. 12. The following tract appears to allude to Dr. Gager , and it would follow from thence , that as late as 1608 he had not recanted on the subject of university plays ...
... seen both pamphlets . P. 182. 1. 15. Dele " MORTON . " " P. 256. 1. 12. The following tract appears to allude to Dr. Gager , and it would follow from thence , that as late as 1608 he had not recanted on the subject of university plays ...
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