The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson & Company, Cheapside, London, 1820 - English poetry |
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... productions of good writers - Breton's " Fancy , " and a poem by him among the Royal MSS.- " Eliostos Roundelay , " by Robert Greene , extracted and observed upon - The title of Hind's production imitated from R. Greene's " Carde of ...
... productions of good writers - Breton's " Fancy , " and a poem by him among the Royal MSS.- " Eliostos Roundelay , " by Robert Greene , extracted and observed upon - The title of Hind's production imitated from R. Greene's " Carde of ...
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... produce not far short of double that amount . I doubt whether the poem it contains by Breton will increase your ... productions of dead authors than for raking up the bad actions of dead men . MORTON . Your motto is Si malus est nequeo ...
... produce not far short of double that amount . I doubt whether the poem it contains by Breton will increase your ... productions of dead authors than for raking up the bad actions of dead men . MORTON . Your motto is Si malus est nequeo ...
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... productions , of which there must have been several earlier editions , though that in my hand is dated only in 1621. It is called " Greene's never too late , " and elsewhere Greene's Nunquam sera est ; a pamphlet , in which , conscience ...
... productions , of which there must have been several earlier editions , though that in my hand is dated only in 1621. It is called " Greene's never too late , " and elsewhere Greene's Nunquam sera est ; a pamphlet , in which , conscience ...
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... production , I suppose there is no objection to our completing what we left unfinished at our last meeting . ELLIOT . I do not imagine that much remains for us to notice in the class of writers who have pro- duced satirical poetry ...
... production , I suppose there is no objection to our completing what we left unfinished at our last meeting . ELLIOT . I do not imagine that much remains for us to notice in the class of writers who have pro- duced satirical poetry ...
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... productions . BOURNE . The ridicule of Butler , Pope , and Swift , has contributed to keep him in the back ground longer than many other authors of far less merit : in fact he has been improperly and unfairly estimated , both by his ...
... productions . BOURNE . The ridicule of Butler , Pope , and Swift , has contributed to keep him in the back ground longer than many other authors of far less merit : in fact he has been improperly and unfairly estimated , both by his ...
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Page 71 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Page 183 - I could not make my verses iet vpon the stage in tragicall buskins, euerie worde filling the mouth like the faburden of Bo-Bell, daring God out of heauen with that Atheist Tamburlan, or blaspheming with the mad preest of the sonne...
Page 104 - The angel-quiristers of th' heavenly skies. Give pardon eke, sweet soul, to my slow eyes, That since I saw thee now it is so long, And yet the tears that unto thee belong To thee as yet they did not sacrifice. I did not know that thou wert dead before ; I did not feel the grief I did sustain ; The greater stroke astonisheth the more ; Astonishment takes from us sense of pain ; I stood amazed when others' tears begun, And now begin to weep when they have done.
Page 98 - Revenge, and made divers attempts, hoping to force her by the multitudes of their armed...
Page 181 - Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so, Then were my hopes greater than my despair, Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe. Ah, were her heart relenting as her hand, That seems to melt even with the mildest touch, Then knew I where to seat me in a land, Under wide heavens, but yet [I know] not such.
Page 219 - An Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse, against Poets, Pipers, Players, and their Excusers.
Page 212 - ... into bowls; and our darts to dishes. We have robbed Greece of gluttony, Italy of wantonness, Spain of pride, France of deceit, and Dutchland of quaffing. Compare London to Rome, and England to Italy, you shall find the theatres of the one, the abuses of the other, to be rife among us.
Page 274 - ... denied God and his sonne Christ, and not only in word blasphemed the trinitie, but also (as it is credibly reported) wrote bookes against it, affirming our Sauiour to be but a deceiuer, and Moses to be but a coniurer and seducer of the people, and the holy Bible to be but vaine and idle stories, and all religion but a deuice of pollicie.
Page 183 - I keepe my old coarse to palter up something in Prose using mine olde poesie still Omne tulit punctum, although latelye two Gentlemen Poets made two mad-men of Rome beate it out of their paper bucklers, and had it in derision for that I could not make my verses jet upon the stage in tragical! buskins, everie worde filling the mouth like the faburden of Bo-Bell, daring God out of heaven with that Atheist Tamburlan...
Page 116 - Thereto he could fine loving verses frame, And play the poet oft. But ah ! for shame, Let not sweet poets...