The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... seen all that is necessary of his production , I suppose there is no objection to our completing what we left unfinished at our last meeting . ELLIOT . I do not imagine that much remains for us to notice in the class of writers who have ...
... seen all that is necessary of his production , I suppose there is no objection to our completing what we left unfinished at our last meeting . ELLIOT . I do not imagine that much remains for us to notice in the class of writers who have ...
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... seen extracted , and which serves to show , among many other testimonies , that poor Wither , from his political principles more than from any other cause , was not very highly esteemed by his contemporaries . " How Mr. Peters jeered ...
... seen extracted , and which serves to show , among many other testimonies , that poor Wither , from his political principles more than from any other cause , was not very highly esteemed by his contemporaries . " How Mr. Peters jeered ...
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... seen that he thought well of King James . BOURNE . And spoke well of him too , as he does only a few lines afterwards : he says that he cannot " but speak well " of him , and that no sovereign had ever less vanity - about the last ...
... seen that he thought well of King James . BOURNE . And spoke well of him too , as he does only a few lines afterwards : he says that he cannot " but speak well " of him , and that no sovereign had ever less vanity - about the last ...
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... seen as much of his satires as perhaps is necessary : before , however , we leave Sir P. Sidney , introduced by Wither , let me show you a very great literary curiosity . MORTON . By all means : what is it ? BOURNE . I wish it were a ...
... seen as much of his satires as perhaps is necessary : before , however , we leave Sir P. Sidney , introduced by Wither , let me show you a very great literary curiosity . MORTON . By all means : what is it ? BOURNE . I wish it were a ...
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... seen nor heard of this tract , nor of another on the death of the Countess of Lenox , which is almost of equal rarity . MORTON . Read the title , if you please . BOURNE . I will , at length , for you may never hear it again . It is this ...
... seen nor heard of this tract , nor of another on the death of the Countess of Lenox , which is almost of equal rarity . MORTON . Read the title , if you please . BOURNE . I will , at length , for you may never hear it again . It is this ...
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Page 71 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Page 183 - I could not make my verses iet vpon the stage in tragicall buskins, euerie worde filling the mouth like the faburden of Bo-Bell, daring God out of heauen with that Atheist Tamburlan, or blaspheming with the mad preest of the sonne...
Page 104 - The angel-quiristers of th' heavenly skies. Give pardon eke, sweet soul, to my slow eyes, That since I saw thee now it is so long, And yet the tears that unto thee belong To thee as yet they did not sacrifice. I did not know that thou wert dead before ; I did not feel the grief I did sustain ; The greater stroke astonisheth the more ; Astonishment takes from us sense of pain ; I stood amazed when others' tears begun, And now begin to weep when they have done.
Page 98 - Revenge, and made divers attempts, hoping to force her by the multitudes of their armed...
Page 219 - An Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse, against Poets, Pipers, Players, and their Excusers.
Page 175 - If thou refuse this, as a niggard of thy cates, I will have amongst you with my sword; for rather will I die valiantly than perish with so cowardly an extreme.
Page 256 - Doctor Reynolds is the last ; not in worth, but in the time of his loss. He alone was a well-furnished library, full of all faculties, of all studies, of all learning ; the memory, the reading of that man were near to a miracle.
Page 183 - I keepe my old coarse to palter up something in Prose using mine olde poesie still Omne tulit punctum, although latelye two Gentlemen Poets made two mad-men of Rome beate it out of their paper bucklers, and had it in derision for that I could not make my verses jet upon the stage in tragical! buskins, everie worde filling the mouth like the faburden of Bo-Bell, daring God out of heaven with that Atheist Tamburlan...
Page 190 - Dorastus, desirous to see if nature had adorned her mind with any inward qualities, as she had decked her body with outward shape, began to question with her whose daughter she was, of what age, and how she had been trained up?
Page 15 - Carde of Fancie. Wherein the folly of those carpet knights is deciphered, which guiding their course by the compass of Cupid, either dash their ship against most dangerous rocks, or else attaine the haven with pain and peril Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydonius a cruell combate between Nature and Necessitie.