The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... better speculation , but a worse book : -it would have possessed even less substance than in its present shape belongs to it . The general success which attended the pub- lication of such works as Censura Literaria , the British ...
... better speculation , but a worse book : -it would have possessed even less substance than in its present shape belongs to it . The general success which attended the pub- lication of such works as Censura Literaria , the British ...
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... excuse is 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 .
... excuse is 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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... better , with two or three exceptions . " With two or three exceptions ! " Indeed ! ( said Bourne ) is that all you can allow ? Omitting Spenser and Shakespeare as out of the question , what say you to Fletcher and Jonson , to Chapman ...
... better , with two or three exceptions . " With two or three exceptions ! " Indeed ! ( said Bourne ) is that all you can allow ? Omitting Spenser and Shakespeare as out of the question , what say you to Fletcher and Jonson , to Chapman ...
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... better than his worst they would merit preserva- tion , confining the remark merely to poetry . " For out of the old fields , as men saith , Cometh all this new corn fro year to year , And out of old books , in good faith , Cometh all ...
... better than his worst they would merit preserva- tion , confining the remark merely to poetry . " For out of the old fields , as men saith , Cometh all this new corn fro year to year , And out of old books , in good faith , Cometh all ...
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... better things ; better in respect to general utility ( answered Morton ) than , as Bishop Earle expresses it , to be " a surgeon of old authors , and heal the wounds of dust and ignorance . ” Perhaps I know a little more about foreign ...
... better things ; better in respect to general utility ( answered Morton ) than , as Bishop Earle expresses it , to be " a surgeon of old authors , and heal the wounds of dust and ignorance . ” Perhaps I know a little more about foreign ...
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