The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson & Company, Cheapside, London, 1820 - English poetry |
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... Webster ; but no- body has carried his scepticism upon the merits of our earlier poets so far as to say , that they have no heat and no light . ELLIOT . Perhaps not ; but I cannot be without suspicions that it will frequently turn out ...
... Webster ; but no- body has carried his scepticism upon the merits of our earlier poets so far as to say , that they have no heat and no light . ELLIOT . Perhaps not ; but I cannot be without suspicions that it will frequently turn out ...
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... Webster , ” 1654 , ad- duced as evidence to show that Webster the player was Webster the preacher - Internal evidence to the same point derived from a comparison of some passages in the " Academiarum Examen " and " Saints Guide , " and ...
... Webster , ” 1654 , ad- duced as evidence to show that Webster the player was Webster the preacher - Internal evidence to the same point derived from a comparison of some passages in the " Academiarum Examen " and " Saints Guide , " and ...
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... Webster . London , 1654 : " and here is another tract , called " The Saints Guide , " of the same date , 66 By Iohn Webster , late Chaplain in the Army . ” MORTON . I see them , but they prove nothing , unless that there were two ...
... Webster . London , 1654 : " and here is another tract , called " The Saints Guide , " of the same date , 66 By Iohn Webster , late Chaplain in the Army . ” MORTON . I see them , but they prove nothing , unless that there were two ...
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... Webster's contempo- rary . MORTON . Recollect that Webster's first pamphlet is an attack on the Universities , and if Hall could make out his antagonist to have been a player or play - poet in the puritanical times when he wrote , it ...
... Webster's contempo- rary . MORTON . Recollect that Webster's first pamphlet is an attack on the Universities , and if Hall could make out his antagonist to have been a player or play - poet in the puritanical times when he wrote , it ...
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... Webster's dedication to his " Duchess of Malfy , " and the address before his play of " the White Devil . " MORTON . For that , at present , we must take your word , as we cannot on the instant compare them . BOURNE . It does not ...
... Webster's dedication to his " Duchess of Malfy , " and the address before his play of " the White Devil . " MORTON . For that , at present , we must take your word , as we cannot on the instant compare them . BOURNE . It does not ...
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