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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... follow but by your own discretion , which you had without reading Quintus Curtius ? And whereas a man may say , though in universal consideration of doctrine the poet prevaileth , yet that the history , in his saying such a thing was ...
... follow but by your own discretion , which you had without reading Quintus Curtius ? And whereas a man may say , though in universal consideration of doctrine the poet prevaileth , yet that the history , in his saying such a thing was ...
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... follows , that all the parts of it are ( as near as may be ) to be equally subdivided ; namely , that one act take not up the supposed time of half a day , which is out of proportion to the rest ; since the ... follow OF DRAMATIC POESY 133.
... follows , that all the parts of it are ( as near as may be ) to be equally subdivided ; namely , that one act take not up the supposed time of half a day , which is out of proportion to the rest ; since the ... follow OF DRAMATIC POESY 133.
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... follow nature , but he must follow her on foot : you have dismounted him from his Pegasus . But you tell us , this supplying the last half of a verse , or adjoining a whole second to the former , looks more like the design of two , than ...
... follow nature , but he must follow her on foot : you have dismounted him from his Pegasus . But you tell us , this supplying the last half of a verse , or adjoining a whole second to the former , looks more like the design of two , than ...
Contents
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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