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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... poet is the least liar , and , though he would , as a poet can scarcely be a liar . The astronomer , with his cousin the geometrician , can hardly escape , when they take upon them to measure the height of the stars . How often , think ...
... poet is the least liar , and , though he would , as a poet can scarcely be a liar . The astronomer , with his cousin the geometrician , can hardly escape , when they take upon them to measure the height of the stars . How often , think ...
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... poet has found the repartee , the last perfection he can add to it is to put it into verse . However good the thought may be , however apt the words in which ' tis couched , yet he finds himself at a little unrest while rhyme is wanting ...
... poet has found the repartee , the last perfection he can add to it is to put it into verse . However good the thought may be , however apt the words in which ' tis couched , yet he finds himself at a little unrest while rhyme is wanting ...
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... poet's design , you will see how properly the Faerie Queene is conducted . ' I devise , ' says the poet himself in his Letter to Sir W. Raleigh , ' that the Faery Queen kept her annual feaste xii days : upon which xii several days , the ...
... poet's design , you will see how properly the Faerie Queene is conducted . ' I devise , ' says the poet himself in his Letter to Sir W. Raleigh , ' that the Faery Queen kept her annual feaste xii days : upon which xii several days , the ...
Contents
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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