The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 |
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Pàgina iv
... those who have hitherto published Collections of this kind may have con- ceived , their execution of them feems , to the author of this work , as well as to the writer of this preface , the clearest demon- ftration of their having ...
... those who have hitherto published Collections of this kind may have con- ceived , their execution of them feems , to the author of this work , as well as to the writer of this preface , the clearest demon- ftration of their having ...
Pàgina v
... those who stole them : And all , especially our late compilers , have neglected even to look into the many excellent ancient poets , from whom the following fheets are taken , whofe thoughts might often have claimed a preference , or ...
... those who stole them : And all , especially our late compilers , have neglected even to look into the many excellent ancient poets , from whom the following fheets are taken , whofe thoughts might often have claimed a preference , or ...
Pàgina x
... those times has been proportioned to their me- rits ; for hardly one of that number has come down to us . But those who have been converfant with the dramatick poems our ftage has fince produced , and ob- ferved what lively portraits ...
... those times has been proportioned to their me- rits ; for hardly one of that number has come down to us . But those who have been converfant with the dramatick poems our ftage has fince produced , and ob- ferved what lively portraits ...
Pàgina xiv
... those tools , has certainly given more temptations of verfifying to fuch , as , in spite of nature , bave mistaken their fondness to rhyme , or neceffity of writing , for a true genius of poetry , and lawful call of Apollo , than , ' he ...
... those tools , has certainly given more temptations of verfifying to fuch , as , in spite of nature , bave mistaken their fondness to rhyme , or neceffity of writing , for a true genius of poetry , and lawful call of Apollo , than , ' he ...
Pàgina xvii
... those who reject Shakespear for his obfolete language . In the other volume , which is an alphabetical extract , Spenser's images are introduced with fome extent . The reft of it is but a flight flight collection , confifting of odd and ...
... those who reject Shakespear for his obfolete language . In the other volume , which is an alphabetical extract , Spenser's images are introduced with fome extent . The reft of it is but a flight flight collection , confifting of odd and ...
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