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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... made , be- cause it is generally better than our own , and the many existing glossaries of obsolete words have rendered such an appendage here unnecessary . THE POETICAL DECAMERON . INDUCTION . THE manner in which X PREFACE .
... made , be- cause it is generally better than our own , and the many existing glossaries of obsolete words have rendered such an appendage here unnecessary . THE POETICAL DECAMERON . INDUCTION . THE manner in which X PREFACE .
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... words of Fletcher ( for though this is another confirmatory coincidence , I do not believe that Shakespeare had any hand in the first act of the " Two Noble Kinsmen ) , " " The very lees of such , millions of rates XX INDUCTION .
... words of Fletcher ( for though this is another confirmatory coincidence , I do not believe that Shakespeare had any hand in the first act of the " Two Noble Kinsmen ) , " " The very lees of such , millions of rates XX INDUCTION .
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... words were then used in their original and forcible senses , and were not clipped , filed , and perverted as at the pre- sent moment , when all figurative meaning is lost in common - place application , and all marked di- stinction ...
... words were then used in their original and forcible senses , and were not clipped , filed , and perverted as at the pre- sent moment , when all figurative meaning is lost in common - place application , and all marked di- stinction ...
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... words and phrases , as good quantity For verse or prose in English every way As any common language hath this day . " Here , you see , is the opinion of a man of consider- able classical attainments , living at that time , on this point ...
... words and phrases , as good quantity For verse or prose in English every way As any common language hath this day . " Here , you see , is the opinion of a man of consider- able classical attainments , living at that time , on this point ...
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... word or syllable he was discussing . Yet they congratulate themselves , and belaud each other upon their fancied discoveries , with much more zeal than they bestow upon the poet . They constantly bring to one's mind Steele's shrewd ...
... word or syllable he was discussing . Yet they congratulate themselves , and belaud each other upon their fancied discoveries , with much more zeal than they bestow upon the poet . They constantly bring to one's mind Steele's shrewd ...
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