The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... curious and recondite , is at least as inviting and important , for , as a living critic has well said , " poetry is the stuff of which our life is made : ' it is not a mere frivolous accomplishment - the trifling amusement of a few ...
... curious and recondite , is at least as inviting and important , for , as a living critic has well said , " poetry is the stuff of which our life is made : ' it is not a mere frivolous accomplishment - the trifling amusement of a few ...
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... curious poems , independently of such as the author had introduced in his progress in furtherance of the main designs . The eighth criticises an original novel , on which Shakespeare founded his " Twelfth Night , " very recently ...
... curious poems , independently of such as the author had introduced in his progress in furtherance of the main designs . The eighth criticises an original novel , on which Shakespeare founded his " Twelfth Night , " very recently ...
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... curious composition , words phrases and sentences . " From thence he goes on to particularise the merits of Sir P. Sidney , " that divine starre of sweete wit and inuention , " and to prove the obligations of the language to his pen ...
... curious composition , words phrases and sentences . " From thence he goes on to particularise the merits of Sir P. Sidney , " that divine starre of sweete wit and inuention , " and to prove the obligations of the language to his pen ...
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... curious . I do not perceive that your copy has any preface or introductory matter of the kind in prose : after the title comes the sonnet here quoted by T. P. " to the beavteous and vertuous Lady Elizabeth late wife to the highly ...
... curious . I do not perceive that your copy has any preface or introductory matter of the kind in prose : after the title comes the sonnet here quoted by T. P. " to the beavteous and vertuous Lady Elizabeth late wife to the highly ...
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... curiosity . " To Master Barnabe Barnes , this Madrigall upon his Booke . If all the world were sought from Malta to Mone , From candid Gaule to black - browd Calicute , No frame more various mought have been made one , In euery ioynt or ...
... curiosity . " To Master Barnabe Barnes , this Madrigall upon his Booke . If all the world were sought from Malta to Mone , From candid Gaule to black - browd Calicute , No frame more various mought have been made one , In euery ioynt or ...
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