The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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Page xviii
... mean the ancients of our own country ) , and write much better , with two or three exceptions . " With two or three exceptions ! " Indeed ! ( said Bourne ) is that all you can allow ? Omitting Spenser and Shakespeare as out of the ...
... mean the ancients of our own country ) , and write much better , with two or three exceptions . " With two or three exceptions ! " Indeed ! ( said Bourne ) is that all you can allow ? Omitting Spenser and Shakespeare as out of the ...
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... mean ( said Elliot ) his long and firm per- suasion , that all three parts were so full of what he terms " evident Shakespearianisms , " that he never could bring himself to advert to the arguments against the genuineness of any one of ...
... mean ( said Elliot ) his long and firm per- suasion , that all three parts were so full of what he terms " evident Shakespearianisms , " that he never could bring himself to advert to the arguments against the genuineness of any one of ...
Page xxxiii
... means of ob- taining it are therefore doubly to be envied . The fervour , too , you display in speaking on the subject , and the earnestness with which it is pursued , con- vince me that at least there is a great deal of pleasure merely ...
... means of ob- taining it are therefore doubly to be envied . The fervour , too , you display in speaking on the subject , and the earnestness with which it is pursued , con- vince me that at least there is a great deal of pleasure merely ...
Page xxxiv
... mean to apply my reference to you , but how many of our modern travellers well merit the censure ! Or worse ( added Bourne ) , for not a few might even come under the severer lash of Roger Ascham , when he asserts , that in his time ...
... mean to apply my reference to you , but how many of our modern travellers well merit the censure ! Or worse ( added Bourne ) , for not a few might even come under the severer lash of Roger Ascham , when he asserts , that in his time ...
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... mean those book- rarities , the value of which consists only in their extreme scarcity : into these I hope you do not in- tend to deviate - I have no patience when I see men of taste and knowledge wasting their time upon that ...
... mean those book- rarities , the value of which consists only in their extreme scarcity : into these I hope you do not in- tend to deviate - I have no patience when I see men of taste and knowledge wasting their time upon that ...
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