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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... sweete wit and inuention , " and to prove the obligations of the language to his pen , as producing a " rich vintage of English knowledge . ' P. 19 , 1. 13. In following the authority of Mr. T. Park in the Brit . Bibl . ( II . 120 ) ...
... sweete wit and inuention , " and to prove the obligations of the language to his pen , as producing a " rich vintage of English knowledge . ' P. 19 , 1. 13. In following the authority of Mr. T. Park in the Brit . Bibl . ( II . 120 ) ...
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... sweete Ladie Muses , " begins his courtship long before he is one and twenty . No- thing , however , that I am aware of , has survived either in print or in MS . Very early in his poem he refers to his youth and boldness in this ...
... sweete Ladie Muses , " begins his courtship long before he is one and twenty . No- thing , however , that I am aware of , has survived either in print or in MS . Very early in his poem he refers to his youth and boldness in this ...
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... sweete SIDNEY did infuse The essence of his Phoenix - feather'd Muse . Types of true honour , Phoebus Tripodes , Hell - charming Orphei , Syrens of the sence , Wits substance , Ioves braine - borne Pallades , Soules 32 FIRST CONVERSATION .
... sweete SIDNEY did infuse The essence of his Phoenix - feather'd Muse . Types of true honour , Phoebus Tripodes , Hell - charming Orphei , Syrens of the sence , Wits substance , Ioves braine - borne Pallades , Soules 32 FIRST CONVERSATION .
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... sweete alarmes and braues of loue . " ELLIOT . You are right : it is certainly both spirited and harmonious . MORTON . But I think it is in bad taste : when he invites them " to make them mirth " with Mars's concert , he tells them that ...
... sweete alarmes and braues of loue . " ELLIOT . You are right : it is certainly both spirited and harmonious . MORTON . But I think it is in bad taste : when he invites them " to make them mirth " with Mars's concert , he tells them that ...
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... sweete deuise Where skill doth iudge , is held in souereign price . What else he wrote , his will was to suppresse , And yet the darke a dyamond cannot drowne What be his workes the finest wittes doe gesse ; The Shepheards notes , that ...
... sweete deuise Where skill doth iudge , is held in souereign price . What else he wrote , his will was to suppresse , And yet the darke a dyamond cannot drowne What be his workes the finest wittes doe gesse ; The Shepheards notes , that ...
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