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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... common lan- guage , though rough cadence ; the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words : ' tis true , in some places his wit is independent of his words , as in that of the Rebel Scot : Had Cain been Scot , God would have chang ...
... common lan- guage , though rough cadence ; the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words : ' tis true , in some places his wit is independent of his words , as in that of the Rebel Scot : Had Cain been Scot , God would have chang ...
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... common sense , who could neither relish nor com- prehend an epigram of Martial , or a poem of Cowley : so , on the contrary , an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the common people cannot fail to please all such readers as ...
... common sense , who could neither relish nor com- prehend an epigram of Martial , or a poem of Cowley : so , on the contrary , an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the common people cannot fail to please all such readers as ...
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... common original , the appointment of the Faerie Queen ; and to one common end , the completion of the Faerie Queen's injunctions . The knights issued forth on their adventures on the breaking up of this annual feast ; and the next ...
... common original , the appointment of the Faerie Queen ; and to one common end , the completion of the Faerie Queen's injunctions . The knights issued forth on their adventures on the breaking up of this annual feast ; and the next ...
Contents
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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action admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancients Aristotle beauties Ben Jonson better betwixt blank verse character Chaucer comedy commendation composition conceit Crites critics delight discourse divine doth Dryden English epic epic poetry Eugenius Euripides excellent fable Faerie Queene fame father fault French genius give Gothic Greek hath heroic Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation invention Jonson judge judgement kind labour language Latin learning lines Lisideius manner Milton mind modern Muse nature never noble numbers observed Ovid Paradise Lost passion perfection perhaps persons philosopher Pindar Plato Plautus play plot Plutarch poem Poesy poet poetical poetry praise prose reader reason rhyme Roman rules scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Silent Woman sometimes Sophocles speak spirit stage stanza syllables things thought tion tragedy translated trochee true truth Virgil virtue words write written