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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... quoted . Painter , too ( subjoined Morton ) , in his " Palace of Pleasure , " that work to which Shakespeare and several of our old dramatists were so much indebted , has a remarkable sentence on the pious necessity of preserving old ...
... quoted . Painter , too ( subjoined Morton ) , in his " Palace of Pleasure , " that work to which Shakespeare and several of our old dramatists were so much indebted , has a remarkable sentence on the pious necessity of preserving old ...
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... quoted ? You might guess to eternity : all the in- genuity of the riddle - solvers , from Edipus down to Dame Partlett , would be of no avail . He first gives the passage , and then he adds , with solemn gravity , " Dr. Farmer informs ...
... quoted ? You might guess to eternity : all the in- genuity of the riddle - solvers , from Edipus down to Dame Partlett , would be of no avail . He first gives the passage , and then he adds , with solemn gravity , " Dr. Farmer informs ...
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... quoted , but no specimen is afforded of the satires . P. 231. 1. 5. The reader is desired to observe , that the quotations from Marston are from a MS . made by the author from the original edition some years ago : he has every reason to ...
... quoted , but no specimen is afforded of the satires . P. 231. 1. 5. The reader is desired to observe , that the quotations from Marston are from a MS . made by the author from the original edition some years ago : he has every reason to ...
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... quoted in Heliconia , even to the substitution of one word for another . P. 71 , 1. 4. The Booke of Demeanor and the Allowance and Disallowance of certaine Misdemeanors in Companie " in R. Weste's " Schoole of Vertue , " might , perhaps ...
... quoted in Heliconia , even to the substitution of one word for another . P. 71 , 1. 4. The Booke of Demeanor and the Allowance and Disallowance of certaine Misdemeanors in Companie " in R. Weste's " Schoole of Vertue , " might , perhaps ...
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... quoted by one of our most industrious antiquaries , Mr. Haslewood , in Cens . Lit. ( IX . 245 ) , but without being put upon the alert for the former work . To the other proofs of its great rarity may be added , that Mr. Bliss , neither ...
... quoted by one of our most industrious antiquaries , Mr. Haslewood , in Cens . Lit. ( IX . 245 ) , but without being put upon the alert for the former work . To the other proofs of its great rarity may be added , that Mr. Bliss , neither ...
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