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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... better spend his time is a reason indeed : but it doth ( as they say ) but petere principium : for if it be , as I ... better is better . But I still and utterly deny that there is sprung out of earth a more fruitful knowledge . To the ...
... better spend his time is a reason indeed : but it doth ( as they say ) but petere principium : for if it be , as I ... better is better . But I still and utterly deny that there is sprung out of earth a more fruitful knowledge . To the ...
Page 98
... better to our matter , better to our manners . Let the adversary that thought to hurt us bring more profit and honour by being against us than if he had stood still on our side . For that ( next to the awe of heaven ) the best rein ...
... better to our matter , better to our manners . Let the adversary that thought to hurt us bring more profit and honour by being against us than if he had stood still on our side . For that ( next to the awe of heaven ) the best rein ...
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... better become Dryden's learning and genius to have laboured science into poetry , and have shown , by explaining longitude , that verse did not refuse the ideas of philosophy . His description of the Fire is painted by resolute ...
... better become Dryden's learning and genius to have laboured science into poetry , and have shown , by explaining longitude , that verse did not refuse the ideas of philosophy . His description of the Fire is painted by resolute ...
Contents
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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