The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 2J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... Poets and Poesie , p . 206. Folio , 1627 . From his Poem upon Master William Shakspeare , intended to have been prefixed , with the other of his composition , to the folio of 1623 and afterward printed in several miscellaneous ...
... Poets and Poesie , p . 206. Folio , 1627 . From his Poem upon Master William Shakspeare , intended to have been prefixed , with the other of his composition , to the folio of 1623 and afterward printed in several miscellaneous ...
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... poems , the well - known Mr. Gildon ; and his steps 6 Hence perhaps the ill - starr'd rage between this critick and his elder brother , John Dennis , so pathetically lamented in the Dunciad . Whilst the former was persuaded , that " the ...
... poems , the well - known Mr. Gildon ; and his steps 6 Hence perhaps the ill - starr'd rage between this critick and his elder brother , John Dennis , so pathetically lamented in the Dunciad . Whilst the former was persuaded , that " the ...
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... " And Dunbar hath a similar expression in his beautiful poem The Goldin Terge . of Aristophanis Comœdiæ undecim . Gr . & Lat . Amst . 1710 , Fol . p . 596 . may produce it from a Dittie of the workmen of 24 AN ESSAY ON THE.
... " And Dunbar hath a similar expression in his beautiful poem The Goldin Terge . of Aristophanis Comœdiæ undecim . Gr . & Lat . Amst . 1710 , Fol . p . 596 . may produce it from a Dittie of the workmen of 24 AN ESSAY ON THE.
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... poets are under greater obligations to Boccace , than is generally imagined . Who would suspect , that Chaucer hath ... poem little inferior in his opinion to the Iliad or the Eneid , that the name of its author is wholly lost , and ...
... poets are under greater obligations to Boccace , than is generally imagined . Who would suspect , that Chaucer hath ... poem little inferior in his opinion to the Iliad or the Eneid , that the name of its author is wholly lost , and ...
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... poets have not attended to this and many other minutiæ ; I could point out to you several performances in the respective styles of Chaucer , Spenser , Shakspeare , which the imitated bard could not possibly have either read or construed ...
... poets have not attended to this and many other minutiæ ; I could point out to you several performances in the respective styles of Chaucer , Spenser , Shakspeare , which the imitated bard could not possibly have either read or construed ...
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