The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... tell not I , what forraine men haue done , But follow that which others have begun . " P. 5 , 1. 18. It is necessary to state , that the whole of this con- versation was written very long before the late reprint at the Lee Priory Press ...
... tell not I , what forraine men haue done , But follow that which others have begun . " P. 5 , 1. 18. It is necessary to state , that the whole of this con- versation was written very long before the late reprint at the Lee Priory Press ...
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... tell ; So muche great in glory ths Lady dyd excell , That all the element about her dyd shyne , Not as a mortall but lyke a thyng deuyne . " ELLIOT . He might well assert that he could not equal the elegancy of his original , but he has ...
... tell ; So muche great in glory ths Lady dyd excell , That all the element about her dyd shyne , Not as a mortall but lyke a thyng deuyne . " ELLIOT . He might well assert that he could not equal the elegancy of his original , but he has ...
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... tell , But it may come in fashion , and sute well ? With rigour therefore iudge not , but with reason , Since what you read was fitted for that season . " ELLIOT . When was that play written ? BOURNE . It is merely conjecture , but most ...
... tell , But it may come in fashion , and sute well ? With rigour therefore iudge not , but with reason , Since what you read was fitted for that season . " ELLIOT . When was that play written ? BOURNE . It is merely conjecture , but most ...
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... I believe that yours is the popular no- tion , though most literary antiquaries , perhaps all , would tell you , that Lodge , Hall , and Marston wrote before him ; yet they are in the wrong , THIRD CONVERSATION . 153.
... I believe that yours is the popular no- tion , though most literary antiquaries , perhaps all , would tell you , that Lodge , Hall , and Marston wrote before him ; yet they are in the wrong , THIRD CONVERSATION . 153.
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... tell you master , for a truth I tell you too , I knowe a man that in this towne , had a Bible lying on his shoppe boorde , and solde but three yardes of satten vnto a Gentleman , and forswore himselfe at least three times in the coping ...
... tell you master , for a truth I tell you too , I knowe a man that in this towne , had a Bible lying on his shoppe boorde , and solde but three yardes of satten vnto a Gentleman , and forswore himselfe at least three times in the coping ...
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