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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... Poesy ) than go about to overthrow his authority ; whom , the wiser a man is , the more just cause he shall find to have in admira- tion ; especially since he attributeth unto Poesy more than myself do , namely , to be a very inspiring ...
... Poesy ) than go about to overthrow his authority ; whom , the wiser a man is , the more just cause he shall find to have in admira- tion ; especially since he attributeth unto Poesy more than myself do , namely , to be a very inspiring ...
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... Poesy endueth them with more rareness and more un- expected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity , morality , and to delectation . And therefore it was ever thought to have ...
... Poesy endueth them with more rareness and more un- expected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity , morality , and to delectation . And therefore it was ever thought to have ...
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... poesy is of so large an extent , and so many both of the ancients and moderns have done well in all kinds of it , that in citing one against the other , we shall take up more time this evening than each man's occasions will allow him ...
... poesy is of so large an extent , and so many both of the ancients and moderns have done well in all kinds of it , that in citing one against the other , we shall take up more time this evening than each man's occasions will allow him ...
Contents
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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