Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 2C. Knight & Company, 1845 - English language |
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... Fairy Queen . For the sake of affording a means of comparison with the style and manner of the extracts we shall presently have to give from the latter work , we will add here another of Sackville's delineations : - : - And , next in ...
... Fairy Queen . For the sake of affording a means of comparison with the style and manner of the extracts we shall presently have to give from the latter work , we will add here another of Sackville's delineations : - : - And , next in ...
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... Fairy Queen , or of Paradise Lost - the portion of either poem that soars the highest - if it were to be attempted to be transformed into a drama by merely being divided into acts and scenes , and cut up into the outward semblance of ...
... Fairy Queen , or of Paradise Lost - the portion of either poem that soars the highest - if it were to be attempted to be transformed into a drama by merely being divided into acts and scenes , and cut up into the outward semblance of ...
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... Fairy Queen , ' as well as at least designed , and perhaps made some pro- gress in , a poem in Harvey's new mode of versifying , to be entitled ' Epithalamion Thamesis ; ' " which book , " he says , " I dare undertake will be profitable ...
... Fairy Queen , ' as well as at least designed , and perhaps made some pro- gress in , a poem in Harvey's new mode of versifying , to be entitled ' Epithalamion Thamesis ; ' " which book , " he says , " I dare undertake will be profitable ...
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... Fairy Queen doth to his Orlando . " But he published nothing more for some years . In his Letter to Harvey written from Leicester House in October , 1579 , and more especially in a long Latin valedictory poem included in it , he speaks ...
... Fairy Queen doth to his Orlando . " But he published nothing more for some years . In his Letter to Harvey written from Leicester House in October , 1579 , and more especially in a long Latin valedictory poem included in it , he speaks ...
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... Fairy Queen . If he had published anything else since the Shepherd's Calendar appeared eleven years before , it could only have been a poem of between 400 and 500 lines , entitled ' Muiopotmos , or the Fate of the Butterfly , ' which he ...
... Fairy Queen . If he had published anything else since the Shepherd's Calendar appeared eleven years before , it could only have been a poem of between 400 and 500 lines , entitled ' Muiopotmos , or the Fate of the Butterfly , ' which he ...
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