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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... excellent resting place for all worldly learning to make his end of , so Poetry , being the most familiar to teach it , and most princely to move towards it , in the most excellent work is the most excellent workman . But I am content ...
... excellent resting place for all worldly learning to make his end of , so Poetry , being the most familiar to teach it , and most princely to move towards it , in the most excellent work is the most excellent workman . But I am content ...
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... excellent a manner , and so near resembling antiquity , as printing his work beyond the seas they have ascribed it to Cornelius Nepos , one of the ancients . What should I name Walterus Mape , Gulielmus Nigellus , Gervasius Tilburiensis ...
... excellent a manner , and so near resembling antiquity , as printing his work beyond the seas they have ascribed it to Cornelius Nepos , one of the ancients . What should I name Walterus Mape , Gulielmus Nigellus , Gervasius Tilburiensis ...
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... excellent thoughts in Seneca , yet he of them who had a genius most proper for the stage , was Ovid ; he had a way of writing so fit to stir up a pleasing admiration and concernment , which are the objects of a tragedy , and to show the ...
... excellent thoughts in Seneca , yet he of them who had a genius most proper for the stage , was Ovid ; he had a way of writing so fit to stir up a pleasing admiration and concernment , which are the objects of a tragedy , and to show the ...
Contents
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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