The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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Page vii
... course necessary , and different modifica- tions of it was nearly all that could be attempted . There is but one of the succeeding conversa- tions , the seventh , which can be properly called miscellaneous , for all the rest have one ...
... course necessary , and different modifica- tions of it was nearly all that could be attempted . There is but one of the succeeding conversa- tions , the seventh , which can be properly called miscellaneous , for all the rest have one ...
Page ix
... course includes not a few interesting particulars illustrative of the history of the stage , and some tracts that have hitherto escaped notice . In executing this task , the author has been chiefly indebted to his own industry aided by ...
... course includes not a few interesting particulars illustrative of the history of the stage , and some tracts that have hitherto escaped notice . In executing this task , the author has been chiefly indebted to his own industry aided by ...
Page xi
... course , regarding such men as Spenser , Shakespeare , and Jonson , every body knows a little , and any body may know a great deal ; but Bourne thought that there must be something about their friends , acquaintances , and literary ...
... course , regarding such men as Spenser , Shakespeare , and Jonson , every body knows a little , and any body may know a great deal ; but Bourne thought that there must be something about their friends , acquaintances , and literary ...
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... course all gentlemen now - a - days would justly con- sider it a scandal not to have Shakespeare at their fingers ' ends , but Elliot , though a man of the world , had read Spenser through , and of Ben Jonson , Mas- singer , and our re ...
... course all gentlemen now - a - days would justly con- sider it a scandal not to have Shakespeare at their fingers ' ends , but Elliot , though a man of the world , had read Spenser through , and of Ben Jonson , Mas- singer , and our re ...
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... course earliest occur had been , in a great degree , exhausted , and the conversation involuntarily turned by the habits of the party , and the natural influence of the scene , upon that subject which , unlike all others , affords ...
... course earliest occur had been , in a great degree , exhausted , and the conversation involuntarily turned by the habits of the party , and the natural influence of the scene , upon that subject which , unlike all others , affords ...
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