English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940 - 460 pages |
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... Italian is so full of vowels that it must ever be cumbered with elisions ; the Dutch so , of the other side , with ... Italian nor Spanish have , the French , and we , never almost fail of . Lastly , even the very rhyme itself the ...
... Italian is so full of vowels that it must ever be cumbered with elisions ; the Dutch so , of the other side , with ... Italian nor Spanish have , the French , and we , never almost fail of . Lastly , even the very rhyme itself the ...
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... Italian , which they esteem above all whatsoever wit could have invented in any other form than wherein it is ; which ... Italy , to write that admirable poem of Jerusalem , comparable to the best of the ancients , in any other form than ...
... Italian , which they esteem above all whatsoever wit could have invented in any other form than wherein it is ; which ... Italy , to write that admirable poem of Jerusalem , comparable to the best of the ancients , in any other form than ...
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... Italy , new languages were introduced , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian , Spanish , French , and ours ( made out of them and the Teutonic ) are dialects , a new way of poesy was practised ; new , I say , in ...
... Italy , new languages were introduced , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian , Spanish , French , and ours ( made out of them and the Teutonic ) are dialects , a new way of poesy was practised ; new , I say , in ...
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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