The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... Pieces of Ancient Poetry " from MS . , he was not aware that his first song was that of Lord Essex in Douland's " Musical Banquet , " 1610 , with certain corruptions , to which MS . transcripts are so liable . His two last specimens in ...
... Pieces of Ancient Poetry " from MS . , he was not aware that his first song was that of Lord Essex in Douland's " Musical Banquet , " 1610 , with certain corruptions , to which MS . transcripts are so liable . His two last specimens in ...
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... pieces has been noticed in Mr. T. Park's Heliconia , but he there states , that a funeral poem included in the enumeration , called " The lyfe and death of the good L. Dyer , " is not known . This is a mistake , for I have seen a copy ...
... pieces has been noticed in Mr. T. Park's Heliconia , but he there states , that a funeral poem included in the enumeration , called " The lyfe and death of the good L. Dyer , " is not known . This is a mistake , for I have seen a copy ...
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... pieces in Cens . Lit. ( VIII . 386. ) is one called " Pandosto , the triumph of Time , " 1588 . It is not impossible that this is the same as " Dorastus and Fawnia , " 1588 , under a different title , as Pandosto is a principal ...
... pieces in Cens . Lit. ( VIII . 386. ) is one called " Pandosto , the triumph of Time , " 1588 . It is not impossible that this is the same as " Dorastus and Fawnia , " 1588 , under a different title , as Pandosto is a principal ...
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... production obviously of a very young man , but with a great deal about it that is both admirable and reprehensible . There are few pieces that have greater defects or more striking beauties . The title - page is this :
... production obviously of a very young man , but with a great deal about it that is both admirable and reprehensible . There are few pieces that have greater defects or more striking beauties . The title - page is this :
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... piece , " In Dracum redivivum Carmen . " It has also verses by Richard and Francis Rous , and three stanzas sub- scribed D. W. ELLIOT . Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica gives merely the first part of the title with the date , 1596 ...
... piece , " In Dracum redivivum Carmen . " It has also verses by Richard and Francis Rous , and three stanzas sub- scribed D. W. ELLIOT . Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica gives merely the first part of the title with the date , 1596 ...
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