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... express'd , whose wealth Arithmetic cannot number , and whose lordships A falcon in one day cannot fly over ; Yet he so sordid in his mind , so griping , As not to afford himself the necessaries To maintain life ; if a patrician ...
... express'd , whose wealth Arithmetic cannot number , and whose lordships A falcon in one day cannot fly over ; Yet he so sordid in his mind , so griping , As not to afford himself the necessaries To maintain life ; if a patrician ...
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... express and work up the pas- sions , I wish any example he could bring from them would make it good : for I confess their verses are to me the coldest I have ever read . Neither , indeed , is it possible for them , in the way they take ...
... express and work up the pas- sions , I wish any example he could bring from them would make it good : for I confess their verses are to me the coldest I have ever read . Neither , indeed , is it possible for them , in the way they take ...
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... express such thoughts . Many have blamed thyme in general , for this fault , when the poet with a little care might have redressed it . But they do it with no more justice , than if English Poesy should be made ridiculous for the ake of ...
... express such thoughts . Many have blamed thyme in general , for this fault , when the poet with a little care might have redressed it . But they do it with no more justice , than if English Poesy should be made ridiculous for the ake of ...
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Prologue to Ralph Roister Doister ca 1566 | 11 |
The Art of English Poesy 1589 | 25 |
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