Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... rest ) is into POESIE NARRATIVE ; REPRESENTATIVE , and ALLUSIVE . The NARRATIVE is a meere imitation of History with the excesses before remem- bred ; Choosing for subject commonly Warrs , and Love ; rarely State , and sometimes ...
... rest ) is into POESIE NARRATIVE ; REPRESENTATIVE , and ALLUSIVE . The NARRATIVE is a meere imitation of History with the excesses before remem- bred ; Choosing for subject commonly Warrs , and Love ; rarely State , and sometimes ...
Page 229
... rest , a Chaucer , for some of his poëms ; chiefely his Troylus and Cresside . Then the generous and ingenious Sidney , for his smooth and artfull Arcadia ( and who I could wish had choze rather to have left us of his pen , an ...
... rest , a Chaucer , for some of his poëms ; chiefely his Troylus and Cresside . Then the generous and ingenious Sidney , for his smooth and artfull Arcadia ( and who I could wish had choze rather to have left us of his pen , an ...
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... rest , in their Lycaon , Ixion , Sisyphus , Midas , Tantalus , Titius , & c . Yet questionlesse infinite many more of their fables then these , ( though even these and the rest of this kind want not among our best Mythologians their ...
... rest , in their Lycaon , Ixion , Sisyphus , Midas , Tantalus , Titius , & c . Yet questionlesse infinite many more of their fables then these , ( though even these and the rest of this kind want not among our best Mythologians their ...
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