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 xxii
... translator of Ovid's Meta- morphoses ) , which was prefixed to a dictionary printed near the middle of the reign of Elizabeth : " No doubt but men shall shortly find there is As perfect order , as firm certainty , As grounded rules to ...
... translator of Ovid's Meta- morphoses ) , which was prefixed to a dictionary printed near the middle of the reign of Elizabeth : " No doubt but men shall shortly find there is As perfect order , as firm certainty , As grounded rules to ...
Page xxxv
... translated Homer , yet there is no writer in our lan- guage that had it more at his command , who was more full and harmonious in his style , more grand and stately in his imagery , or more bold and dignified in his conceptions . What ...
... translated Homer , yet there is no writer in our lan- guage that had it more at his command , who was more full and harmonious in his style , more grand and stately in his imagery , or more bold and dignified in his conceptions . What ...
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... translation than before : after by the bookes of Monu- ments , Chronicles , Treatises , and Translations , Theological and humane , by most ingenious Poets , and other Poeticall pamphlets , alwayes with studious addition and curious ...
... translation than before : after by the bookes of Monu- ments , Chronicles , Treatises , and Translations , Theological and humane , by most ingenious Poets , and other Poeticall pamphlets , alwayes with studious addition and curious ...
Page xliii
... translation . P. 72 , 1. 28. The burlesque of the story of Hero and Leander was printed at London in 1651 and again in 1653 . P. 88 , 1. 29. Churchyard's notice of his intention to publish " the Miserie of Flaunders , Calamitie of ...
... translation . P. 72 , 1. 28. The burlesque of the story of Hero and Leander was printed at London in 1651 and again in 1653 . P. 88 , 1. 29. Churchyard's notice of his intention to publish " the Miserie of Flaunders , Calamitie of ...
Page xliv
... translator of the " French Academie " alluded to C. Marlow and R. Greene as disbelievers in God , & c . is derived from Greene's own words in his " Groatsworth of Wit bought with a million of Repentance , " 1592 , which was pub- lished ...
... translator of the " French Academie " alluded to C. Marlow and R. Greene as disbelievers in God , & c . is derived from Greene's own words in his " Groatsworth of Wit bought with a million of Repentance , " 1592 , which was pub- lished ...
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