Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... English language . 3. In verse there are Edmund Spencers Hymns . I cannot ad- vise the allowance of other his poems , as for practick English , no more then I can do Geffrey Chaucer , Lydgate , Peirce Ploughman , or Laureat Skelton . It ...
... English language . 3. In verse there are Edmund Spencers Hymns . I cannot ad- vise the allowance of other his poems , as for practick English , no more then I can do Geffrey Chaucer , Lydgate , Peirce Ploughman , or Laureat Skelton . It ...
Page 344
... English Poets against the Greek , ought to do it in this manner . Either by yielding to him the greatest part of what he con- tends for , which consists in this , that the Mufos ( i.e. ) the Design and Conduct of it is more conducing in ...
... English Poets against the Greek , ought to do it in this manner . Either by yielding to him the greatest part of what he con- tends for , which consists in this , that the Mufos ( i.e. ) the Design and Conduct of it is more conducing in ...
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... English more adorn'd with Episodes , and larger than in the Greek Poets , consequently more diverting ; for , if the Action be but one , and that plain , without any Counterturn of Design or Episode ( i.e. ) Under - plot , how can it be ...
... English more adorn'd with Episodes , and larger than in the Greek Poets , consequently more diverting ; for , if the Action be but one , and that plain , without any Counterturn of Design or Episode ( i.e. ) Under - plot , how can it be ...
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