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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... poetical genius , and in the history of the language , Sackville and his two poems in the Mirror for Magistrates - more espc- cially this Induction - must be considered as forming the connecting link or bridge between Chaucer and ...
... poetical genius , and in the history of the language , Sackville and his two poems in the Mirror for Magistrates - more espc- cially this Induction - must be considered as forming the connecting link or bridge between Chaucer and ...
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... poetical ; and there are some passages of strong painting not unworthy of the hand to which we owe the Induc- tion to the Legend of the Duke of Buckingham in the Mirror for Magistrates . The piece has accordingly won much applause in ...
... poetical ; and there are some passages of strong painting not unworthy of the hand to which we owe the Induc- tion to the Legend of the Duke of Buckingham in the Mirror for Magistrates . The piece has accordingly won much applause in ...
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... poetical or historical allusions . " * These effusions of the chorus are all in rhyme , as being intended to be of the same lyrical character with those in the Greek plays ; but the dialogue in the rest of the piece is in blank verse ...
... poetical or historical allusions . " * These effusions of the chorus are all in rhyme , as being intended to be of the same lyrical character with those in the Greek plays ; but the dialogue in the rest of the piece is in blank verse ...
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... poetical words or terms . " But it was a practice occasionally followed down to a much later date . To all the quarto editions , for example , of Joshua Sylvester's metrical translation of Du Bartas ( 1605 , 1608 , 1613 ) there is ...
... poetical words or terms . " But it was a practice occasionally followed down to a much later date . To all the quarto editions , for example , of Joshua Sylvester's metrical translation of Du Bartas ( 1605 , 1608 , 1613 ) there is ...
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... poetical , he seems rarely dra- matic . " - Lit . of Eur . ii . 378 . This was first pointed out by Isaac Reed in the appendix to his edition of Baker's Biographia Dramatica , 1782 , vol . ii . p . 441. The subject has been examined at ...
... poetical , he seems rarely dra- matic . " - Lit . of Eur . ii . 378 . This was first pointed out by Isaac Reed in the appendix to his edition of Baker's Biographia Dramatica , 1782 , vol . ii . p . 441. The subject has been examined at ...
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