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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... equal them , but they could never equal them- selves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them our fathers in wit ; but they have ruined their estates themselves , before they came to their children's hands . There is ...
... equal them , but they could never equal them- selves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them our fathers in wit ; but they have ruined their estates themselves , before they came to their children's hands . There is ...
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... equal . But Chaucer has refined on Boccace , and has mended the stories , which he has borrowed , in his way of telling ; though prose allows more liberty of thought , and the expression is more easy when unconfined by numbers . Our ...
... equal . But Chaucer has refined on Boccace , and has mended the stories , which he has borrowed , in his way of telling ; though prose allows more liberty of thought , and the expression is more easy when unconfined by numbers . Our ...
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... equal ; and that , in spite of all his faults . Think you this too bold ? Consider , in those ancients what it is the world admires ! Not the fewness of their faults , but the number and bright- ness of their beauties ; and if ...
... equal ; and that , in spite of all his faults . Think you this too bold ? Consider , in those ancients what it is the world admires ! Not the fewness of their faults , but the number and bright- ness of their beauties ; and if ...
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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