The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... heauen ) what seas of paper haue been alwayes furthering polishing and encreasing this honourable enterprise - First by that holy Bibles more exquisite and polite translation than before : after by the bookes of Monu- ments , Chronicles ...
... heauen ) what seas of paper haue been alwayes furthering polishing and encreasing this honourable enterprise - First by that holy Bibles more exquisite and polite translation than before : after by the bookes of Monu- ments , Chronicles ...
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... Heauen is a sacred couering for your heads , And euery Clymat vertues Tabernacle ! " ELLIOT . According to these specimens , Peele's versification had the three great requisites ; it was rich , fluent , and vigorous . BOURNE . He was a ...
... Heauen is a sacred couering for your heads , And euery Clymat vertues Tabernacle ! " ELLIOT . According to these specimens , Peele's versification had the three great requisites ; it was rich , fluent , and vigorous . BOURNE . He was a ...
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... the painfull day : Then did a ghost appeare before mine eyes On that great riuers banke that runnes by Rome , And calling me then by my proper name , He bade me vpwarde vnto heauen looke . He cried 94 SECOND CONVERSATION .
... the painfull day : Then did a ghost appeare before mine eyes On that great riuers banke that runnes by Rome , And calling me then by my proper name , He bade me vpwarde vnto heauen looke . He cried 94 SECOND CONVERSATION .
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... heauen looke . He cried to me , and loe ( quod he ) beholde , What vnder this great Temple is containde ; Loe all is nought but flying vanitie .. So I knowing the worldes vnstedfastnesse , Sith onely God surmountes the force of tyme ...
... heauen looke . He cried to me , and loe ( quod he ) beholde , What vnder this great Temple is containde ; Loe all is nought but flying vanitie .. So I knowing the worldes vnstedfastnesse , Sith onely God surmountes the force of tyme ...
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... Heauen , The course of Starres and Planets seauen . " The lacke of light which dims the Sunne , The labours of the Moone likewise , In their Eclipses when they runne , And of what causes Earthquakes rise ; What thing such forces doth ...
... Heauen , The course of Starres and Planets seauen . " The lacke of light which dims the Sunne , The labours of the Moone likewise , In their Eclipses when they runne , And of what causes Earthquakes rise ; What thing such forces doth ...
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