The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.A. Constable & Company, 1820 - 674 páginas |
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... better than a long bad argument . BOURNE . After all it may not be the work of Breton : Hind introduces it as " a fancie which that learned author N. B. hath dignified with respect . " Now in the first place , the initials may be those ...
... better than a long bad argument . BOURNE . After all it may not be the work of Breton : Hind introduces it as " a fancie which that learned author N. B. hath dignified with respect . " Now in the first place , the initials may be those ...
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... better described by any of the thousand writers that have touched it . The finest character that Churchill ever wrote , I mean that in the beginning of his Rosciad , is not much better than part of what you have just read . MORTON . I ...
... better described by any of the thousand writers that have touched it . The finest character that Churchill ever wrote , I mean that in the beginning of his Rosciad , is not much better than part of what you have just read . MORTON . I ...
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... better : I could point out other amusing extracts , but it is scarcely worth while now to go out of our way for them . Speaking of Physicians in the first book he states that " a gentleman of Vennis , " ( for Whet- stone had travelled ...
... better : I could point out other amusing extracts , but it is scarcely worth while now to go out of our way for them . Speaking of Physicians in the first book he states that " a gentleman of Vennis , " ( for Whet- stone had travelled ...
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... better effect from its being , as they say , præter expectatum . The last two lines of the quotation do not fall short of the rest . ELLIOT . In Ascham's " Schoolmaster " I remember a very eloquent censure of mere nobility transmitted ...
... better effect from its being , as they say , præter expectatum . The last two lines of the quotation do not fall short of the rest . ELLIOT . In Ascham's " Schoolmaster " I remember a very eloquent censure of mere nobility transmitted ...
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... better a fellow that hath bought his new - found nobility with nobles , than another of an high birth and of a low stooping spirit , who can iustly brag of nothing of his owne , but liues upon the supererrogative deeds of his ancestors ...
... better a fellow that hath bought his new - found nobility with nobles , than another of an high birth and of a low stooping spirit , who can iustly brag of nothing of his owne , but liues upon the supererrogative deeds of his ancestors ...
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Página 183 - I keepe my old coarse to palter up something in Prose using mine olde poesie still Omne tulit punctum, although latelye two Gentlemen Poets made two mad-men of Rome beate it out of their paper bucklers, and had it in derision for that I could not make my verses jet upon the stage in tragical! buskins, everie worde filling the mouth like the faburden of Bo-Bell, daring God out of heaven with that Atheist Tamburlan...
Página 71 - SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king!
Página 98 - Revenge, and made divers attempts, hoping to force her by the multitudes of their armed...
Página 181 - Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so, Then were my hopes greater than my despair, Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe. Ah, were her heart relenting as her hand, That seems to melt even with the mildest touch, Then knew I where to seat me in a land, Under wide heavens, but yet [I know] not such.
Página 62 - O, this would make a learned, and liberal soul To rive his stained quill, up to the back, And damn his long-watch'd labours to the fire ; Things that were born, when none but the still night And his dumb candle saw his pinching throes ; Were not his own free merit more a crown Unto his travails than their reeling claps.
Página 219 - An Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse, against Poets, Pipers, Players, and their Excusers.
Página 211 - Newe Bookes I heare of none, but only of one, that writing a certaine Booke, called THE SCHOOLE OF ABUSE, and dedicating it to Maister SIDNEY, was for hys labor scorned, if at leaste it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne.
Página 187 - Bellaria, noting in Egistus a princely and bountiful mind, adorned with sundry and excellent qualities, and Egistus, finding in her a virtuous and courteous disposition, there grew such a secret uniting of their affections, that the one could not well be without the company of the other...
Página 299 - ... and provident to shun the like. I surcease to prosecute this any further, lest my good meaning be (by some) misconstrued ; and fearing likewise, lest with tediousnesse I tire the patience of the favourable Reader, heere (though abruptly) I conclude ^ my third and last TREATISE.
Página 274 - ... denied God and his sonne Christ, and not only in word blasphemed the trinitie, but also (as it is credibly reported) wrote bookes against it, affirming our Sauiour to be but a deceiuer, and Moses to be but a coniurer and seducer of the people, and the holy Bible to be but vaine and idle stories, and all religion but a deuice of pollicie.