The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... dare say I shall find myself in the condition of some travellers , who having spent years abroad in seeing the wonders of the Continent , are surprised when they come home to find that there were any objects worthy notice in their own ...
... dare say I shall find myself in the condition of some travellers , who having spent years abroad in seeing the wonders of the Continent , are surprised when they come home to find that there were any objects worthy notice in their own ...
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... dare say . I wonder , considering how much men of letters in that day must have depended on the countenance of the great , that he would venture such a biting reproof . MORTON . I do not exactly understand what Fitz- geffrey means in ...
... dare say . I wonder , considering how much men of letters in that day must have depended on the countenance of the great , that he would venture such a biting reproof . MORTON . I do not exactly understand what Fitz- geffrey means in ...
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... his youth and boldness in this undertaking : he says ; " Audacious infant , proud presumptuous boye , That dares presume to name with faltring tongue , And voice vntaught to tune an humble laye , A FIRST CONVERSATION . 21.
... his youth and boldness in this undertaking : he says ; " Audacious infant , proud presumptuous boye , That dares presume to name with faltring tongue , And voice vntaught to tune an humble laye , A FIRST CONVERSATION . 21.
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... dares not Assault the man he barkes at , but the stone He throwes at him , takes in his eager iawes , And spoyles his teeth because they cannot spoyle . The long verse hath by proofe receiu a applause Beyond each other number , and the ...
... dares not Assault the man he barkes at , but the stone He throwes at him , takes in his eager iawes , And spoyles his teeth because they cannot spoyle . The long verse hath by proofe receiu a applause Beyond each other number , and the ...
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... dare say , at the time , for in his Jests it is observed shrewdly , that " he was of the poetical disposition , never to write so long as his money lasted . " Now we may come back to Fitz- geffrey , though , in fact , we have arrived ...
... dare say , at the time , for in his Jests it is observed shrewdly , that " he was of the poetical disposition , never to write so long as his money lasted . " Now we may come back to Fitz- geffrey , though , in fact , we have arrived ...
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