The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... Latin poems on the death of Sir Francis Drake . Mine has only one Latin piece , " In Dracum redivivum Carmen . " It has also verses by Richard and Francis Rous , and three stanzas sub- scribed D. W. ELLIOT . Ritson's Bibliographia ...
... Latin poems on the death of Sir Francis Drake . Mine has only one Latin piece , " In Dracum redivivum Carmen . " It has also verses by Richard and Francis Rous , and three stanzas sub- scribed D. W. ELLIOT . Ritson's Bibliographia ...
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... Latin pro- verb is as applicable to the one as to the other . BOURNE . Now , indeed , you open a wide field for argument . MORTON . Which for the present , if you please , we will leave unexplored . ELLIOT . At least Spenser's Sonnet ...
... Latin pro- verb is as applicable to the one as to the other . BOURNE . Now , indeed , you open a wide field for argument . MORTON . Which for the present , if you please , we will leave unexplored . ELLIOT . At least Spenser's Sonnet ...
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... Latin quotation he makes , Ecce tacent omnes , Nævole dic aliquid , implies as much . You observe , that in the dedicatory sonnet to Lady Drake , he calls her husband by the poetical , yet etymological name of the dragon : Lope de Vega ...
... Latin quotation he makes , Ecce tacent omnes , Nævole dic aliquid , implies as much . You observe , that in the dedicatory sonnet to Lady Drake , he calls her husband by the poetical , yet etymological name of the dragon : Lope de Vega ...
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... Latin , into their original measures , has adopted the compound epithets of Homer , and they have both grace and force in German . MORTON . In this respect , whether English be or be not well adapted to the purpose , I think Chapman has ...
... Latin , into their original measures , has adopted the compound epithets of Homer , and they have both grace and force in German . MORTON . In this respect , whether English be or be not well adapted to the purpose , I think Chapman has ...
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... not seen registered any where indeed it scarcely deserves notice , excepting for the sake of complete- ness ; I mean a copy of Latin verses addressed to : Joshua Sylvester on his translation of Du - Bartas , FIRST CONVERSATION . 71.
... not seen registered any where indeed it scarcely deserves notice , excepting for the sake of complete- ness ; I mean a copy of Latin verses addressed to : Joshua Sylvester on his translation of Du - Bartas , FIRST CONVERSATION . 71.
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