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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... perhaps , have made a better speculation , but a worse book : -it would have possessed even less substance than in its present shape belongs to it . The general success which attended the pub lication of such works as Censura Literaria ...
... perhaps , have made a better speculation , but a worse book : -it would have possessed even less substance than in its present shape belongs to it . The general success which attended the pub lication of such works as Censura Literaria ...
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... perhaps a hundred others ? You may spare yourself the trouble of going through a list of names , many of which are quite as new to me as their works ( resumed Elliot ) . I do not mean to contend with you on the merits of authors I never ...
... perhaps a hundred others ? You may spare yourself the trouble of going through a list of names , many of which are quite as new to me as their works ( resumed Elliot ) . I do not mean to contend with you on the merits of authors I never ...
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... Perhaps I know a little more about foreign authors ( continued Elliot ) , but it is a knowledge which every body may attain ; and surely it is some dis- grace for a man to be wholly ignorant of so many writers of his own country , while ...
... Perhaps I know a little more about foreign authors ( continued Elliot ) , but it is a knowledge which every body may attain ; and surely it is some dis- grace for a man to be wholly ignorant of so many writers of his own country , while ...
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... perhaps , had some little interest at the time it was published , but now has entirely lost it . On that score you will have little to complain of ( answered Bourne ) , though I give you fair warning that you must take your chance ...
... perhaps , had some little interest at the time it was published , but now has entirely lost it . On that score you will have little to complain of ( answered Bourne ) , though I give you fair warning that you must take your chance ...
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... perhaps , have afforded the party a useful hint or two in some of the dryer points of these conversa- tions : " To gape in such vnseemely sort with vgly gaping mouth Is like an image pictured , a blowing from the south : Which to avoyd ...
... perhaps , have afforded the party a useful hint or two in some of the dryer points of these conversa- tions : " To gape in such vnseemely sort with vgly gaping mouth Is like an image pictured , a blowing from the south : Which to avoyd ...
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