The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... quotation be offered , what other matter of discussion can be found that will so well bear repeating ? But in truth it is as impossible to exhaust such a source of enjoyment , as that the great stream on which the three friends were em ...
... quotation be offered , what other matter of discussion can be found that will so well bear repeating ? But in truth it is as impossible to exhaust such a source of enjoyment , as that the great stream on which the three friends were em ...
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... quotation more applicable to Shakespeare , than three lines in one of his own exquisite sonnets , I think the 150th . " In the very refuse of thy deeds There is such strength and warrantise of skill , That in my mind thy worst all best ...
... quotation more applicable to Shakespeare , than three lines in one of his own exquisite sonnets , I think the 150th . " In the very refuse of thy deeds There is such strength and warrantise of skill , That in my mind thy worst all best ...
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... quotation is from one of our fine vigorous old poets , about whom little is known but that he translated Homer , yet there is no writer in our lan- guage that had it more at his command , who was more full and harmonious in his style ...
... quotation is from one of our fine vigorous old poets , about whom little is known but that he translated Homer , yet there is no writer in our lan- guage that had it more at his command , who was more full and harmonious in his style ...
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... quotations from Marston are from a MS . made by the author from the original edition some years ago : he has every reason to believe however that his transcript is accurate . P. 276 , l . 6. Those who wish to see the nature of H ...
... quotations from Marston are from a MS . made by the author from the original edition some years ago : he has every reason to believe however that his transcript is accurate . P. 276 , l . 6. Those who wish to see the nature of H ...
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... quotation from S. Rowland's fourth satire in his " Letting of Humours blood in the head - vaine , " 1600 , it appears that the country clown , and not the court jester , was their forte . " How dee like the phrase Are plough - men xliv ...
... quotation from S. Rowland's fourth satire in his " Letting of Humours blood in the head - vaine , " 1600 , it appears that the country clown , and not the court jester , was their forte . " How dee like the phrase Are plough - men xliv ...
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