The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... Ben Jonson , Mas- singer , and our re - published dramatists , he knew more than many . The difference , therefore , be- tween him and Bourne was exactly this : he was acquainted with what every other person may ac- quire without ...
... Ben Jonson , Mas- singer , and our re - published dramatists , he knew more than many . The difference , therefore , be- tween him and Bourne was exactly this : he was acquainted with what every other person may ac- quire without ...
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... Ben Jonson and Massinger . Can you wonder then , notwithstanding the admitted disgrace brought upon the pursuit by unlearned knowledge , and the blind zeal of bibliomaniacs , who judge only of the value of books by their scarcity , that ...
... Ben Jonson and Massinger . Can you wonder then , notwithstanding the admitted disgrace brought upon the pursuit by unlearned knowledge , and the blind zeal of bibliomaniacs , who judge only of the value of books by their scarcity , that ...
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... Johnson's opinion of extracts - Quotation from , and criticism upon , Fitzgeffrey's poem - Why productions of this kind are ... Ben Jonson , cited for a coincidence - Fitzgeffrey's praise of Spenser , Daniel , and Drayton - His compound ...
... Johnson's opinion of extracts - Quotation from , and criticism upon , Fitzgeffrey's poem - Why productions of this kind are ... Ben Jonson , cited for a coincidence - Fitzgeffrey's praise of Spenser , Daniel , and Drayton - His compound ...
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... Ben Jonson His autograph in the copy in the British Museum of the first seven books of Chapman's Iliad - Fitzgeffrey's eulogy of the stage - poets of his time - Coincidence between Shakespeare and Fitzgeffrey - Burlesque vulgarism of ...
... Ben Jonson His autograph in the copy in the British Museum of the first seven books of Chapman's Iliad - Fitzgeffrey's eulogy of the stage - poets of his time - Coincidence between Shakespeare and Fitzgeffrey - Burlesque vulgarism of ...
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... Ben Jonson , in his Underwoods unless I mis- take , says still better ; " Minds that are great and Do not on fortune pause ; free Enough for virtue is her own applause ! " ELLIOT . They ... Ben Jonson's last line is a 30 FIRST CONVERSATION .
... Ben Jonson , in his Underwoods unless I mis- take , says still better ; " Minds that are great and Do not on fortune pause ; free Enough for virtue is her own applause ! " ELLIOT . They ... Ben Jonson's last line is a 30 FIRST CONVERSATION .
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