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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... English language under Chaucer , Gower , and Lidgate , and the writers of old rhymes and romances : he after- wards proceeds thus : " But since the dayes of blessed Queene Eliza- beth ( whose happie reigne is as the dayes of.
... English language under Chaucer , Gower , and Lidgate , and the writers of old rhymes and romances : he after- wards proceeds thus : " But since the dayes of blessed Queene Eliza- beth ( whose happie reigne is as the dayes of.
Page 46
... rhyme ; " ( Son . lv . ) we hold it a glorious consciousness of their own im- mortality ; but when , on the other hand , we find such a poor mistaken being as Percival Stockdale , for the satisfaction of future ages , describing ...
... rhyme ; " ( Son . lv . ) we hold it a glorious consciousness of their own im- mortality ; but when , on the other hand , we find such a poor mistaken being as Percival Stockdale , for the satisfaction of future ages , describing ...
Page 58
... rhyme , some- what homely and familiar : it is introduced , as the author tells us , to incite the English to follow the example of their " predecessors the Troyans . " It has some pretty passages ; for instance , where he says of Paris ...
... rhyme , some- what homely and familiar : it is introduced , as the author tells us , to incite the English to follow the example of their " predecessors the Troyans . " It has some pretty passages ; for instance , where he says of Paris ...
Page 75
... rhyme - Nicholas Grimoald , and Gascoyne - John Vandernoodt's " Theatre , & c . of Voluptuous Worldlings , " 1569 - Quotation from it - Specimen of peculiar blank - verse in Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar , 1579 , for August - His claim ...
... rhyme - Nicholas Grimoald , and Gascoyne - John Vandernoodt's " Theatre , & c . of Voluptuous Worldlings , " 1569 - Quotation from it - Specimen of peculiar blank - verse in Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar , 1579 , for August - His claim ...
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... rhyme by him quoted from his " Bright burning Beacon " on the Earthquake of 1580 - Fleming's list of poets , & c who wrote on the same subject - Turberville and N. Breton - R . Greene's blank- verse in " Perimedes the Blacke - Smith ...
... rhyme by him quoted from his " Bright burning Beacon " on the Earthquake of 1580 - Fleming's list of poets , & c who wrote on the same subject - Turberville and N. Breton - R . Greene's blank- verse in " Perimedes the Blacke - Smith ...
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