Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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Page 55
... shew their changable measures in the varietie of their Odes , have beene very painefull no doubt unto them , and forced them thus to disturbe the quiet streame of their wordes , which by a naturall succession otherwise desire to follow ...
... shew their changable measures in the varietie of their Odes , have beene very painefull no doubt unto them , and forced them thus to disturbe the quiet streame of their wordes , which by a naturall succession otherwise desire to follow ...
Page 58
... shew his infin- ite reading , and most happy power of disposition : his twelve Ęglogues , his Affrica containing nine Bookes of the last Pu- nicke warre , with his three Bookes of Epistles in Latine verse , shew all the transformations ...
... shew his infin- ite reading , and most happy power of disposition : his twelve Ęglogues , his Affrica containing nine Bookes of the last Pu- nicke warre , with his three Bookes of Epistles in Latine verse , shew all the transformations ...
Page 285
... shew the Reader in what place he shall find every excellent picture of Virtue you have drawn , is too long . And to shew him one , is to prejudice the rest ; yet I cannot for- bear to point him to the Description of Love in the person ...
... shew the Reader in what place he shall find every excellent picture of Virtue you have drawn , is too long . And to shew him one , is to prejudice the rest ; yet I cannot for- bear to point him to the Description of Love in the person ...
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