The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... kind of knowledge required for the task he undertook , he had learning and considerable ingenuity , even in his blunders . It is unfortunate that so many qualifications should be necessary for a commentator , and that so few should ever ...
... kind of knowledge required for the task he undertook , he had learning and considerable ingenuity , even in his blunders . It is unfortunate that so many qualifications should be necessary for a commentator , and that so few should ever ...
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... kind of applause that might not deservedly be applied to Shakespeare ; and I follow it up by subjoining , that there is no kind of abuse in which I cannot heartily join against his commentators : I could find in my heart to hack and hew ...
... kind of applause that might not deservedly be applied to Shakespeare ; and I follow it up by subjoining , that there is no kind of abuse in which I cannot heartily join against his commentators : I could find in my heart to hack and hew ...
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... kind ( added Morton ) than his two plays of the Conspiracy and Tragedy of the Duke of Byron ? I think I do not speak with too much partiality when I say that they contain as noble passages as are to be found in any dramatic poet ...
... kind ( added Morton ) than his two plays of the Conspiracy and Tragedy of the Duke of Byron ? I think I do not speak with too much partiality when I say that they contain as noble passages as are to be found in any dramatic poet ...
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... kind are forced and unnatural — Most impudent plagiary by R. Junius from Owen Feltham - Rev . H. J. Todd's praise of Junius - a passage by Junius on which Cowley might have founded his Naufragium Joculare - Thos . Heywood's " English ...
... kind are forced and unnatural — Most impudent plagiary by R. Junius from Owen Feltham - Rev . H. J. Todd's praise of Junius - a passage by Junius on which Cowley might have founded his Naufragium Joculare - Thos . Heywood's " English ...
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... 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 renowmed Sir Francis Drake deceased ; " and then follow some commendatory poems , but no ...
... 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 renowmed Sir Francis Drake deceased ; " and then follow some commendatory poems , but no ...
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