The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... 6 " Have some forbearance towards the dead , " said Morton . If they are dead , that is all the good that can be said of them , ( continued Elliot , borrowing the point of an epigram by one who might have been a INDUCTION . xxvii.
... 6 " Have some forbearance towards the dead , " said Morton . If they are dead , that is all the good that can be said of them , ( continued Elliot , borrowing the point of an epigram by one who might have been a INDUCTION . xxvii.
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... epigram by one who might have been a worthy annotator ) : and why are they to be spared when dead , who in their lifetime spared neither dead nor living ; torturing their author , and tormenting his readers ? There is scarcely a page or ...
... epigram by one who might have been a worthy annotator ) : and why are they to be spared when dead , who in their lifetime spared neither dead nor living ; torturing their author , and tormenting his readers ? There is scarcely a page or ...
Page xli
... Epigrams and Satyres , " London , 1598 , 12mo .; probably , in fact , 8vo . , a mistake often made in con- sequence of a want of comparison with the size of the small quartos . Some of the epigrams are there quoted , but no specimen is ...
... Epigrams and Satyres , " London , 1598 , 12mo .; probably , in fact , 8vo . , a mistake often made in con- sequence of a want of comparison with the size of the small quartos . Some of the epigrams are there quoted , but no specimen is ...
Page xlii
... epigrams and satires refer . VOL . II . P. 37 , 1. 22. Whetstone's " Rocke of Regard " was printed in 1576 , Part IV . of which contains what is here alluded to ; it is under the title of the " Inventions of P. Plasmos , touching his ...
... epigrams and satires refer . VOL . II . P. 37 , 1. 22. Whetstone's " Rocke of Regard " was printed in 1576 , Part IV . of which contains what is here alluded to ; it is under the title of the " Inventions of P. Plasmos , touching his ...
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... Epigrams , and some Cenotaphs , published in 1601 , five years after the poem before us : they are Sir P. Sidney , Edm . Spenser , Sam . Daniel , Mich . Drayton , Benj . Jonson , George Chapman , Joshua Sylvester , John Marston , Will ...
... Epigrams , and some Cenotaphs , published in 1601 , five years after the poem before us : they are Sir P. Sidney , Edm . Spenser , Sam . Daniel , Mich . Drayton , Benj . Jonson , George Chapman , Joshua Sylvester , John Marston , Will ...
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