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" Thalaba and to the Curse of Kehama. As in the case of those shapeless Indian epics, so in that of Davenant's long-winded Lombardian heroic, there were not a few critics and lovers of poetry who refused to bow the knee to a poetical Baal so foreign to... "
From Shakespeare to Pope - Page 136
by Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 242 pages
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 246 pages
...satirical pamphlet by Sir J. Denham, J. Donne, Sir Allen Brodrick, and others, under the following title: " Certain Verses, written by several of the Author's...Friends, to be reprinted with the second Edition of Goridibert." London, 1653. An answer was returned by Davenant, with some temper, in a similar vein,...
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Parker and Marvell. D'Avenant and a club of wits. The paper wars of the ...

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1814 - 302 pages
...decided its fate ! A Club of Wits caballed, and produced a collection of short Poems, sarcastically entitled " Certain Verses written by several of the Author's Friends, to be reprinted in the Second Edition of Gondibert, 1653." Two years after appeared a brother Volume, entitled " The...
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Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica; or, A descriptive catalogue of a rare ...

Acton Frederick Griffiths - 1815 - 628 pages
...printed for W. Taylor, 1721. Three vols. duodecimo. . £\. \s. 146. CERTAIN VERSES written by severall of the Author's Friends; to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert (pp. 24). — London, 1653. — The Incomparable Poem Gondibert, vindicated from the Wit-Combats of...
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Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica, Or, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich ...

Longman (Firm), Thomas Park - English poetry - 1815 - 481 pages
...for W. Baylor, 1721. . Three vols. duodecimo. . £\. Is. / 146. CERTAIN VERSES written by severall of the Author's Friends ; to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert (pp. 24). — London, 1653^ — The Incomparable Poem Gondibert, vindicated from the Wit-Combats of...
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A Catalogue of a Most Elegant Collection of Books: Consisting of Many of the ...

Robert Harding Evans - Private libraries - 1819 - 296 pages
...Mademoiselle, dite Fret il Ion [45] _ .. //,, __ 1087 Oavenant, certain Ver*es written by severall of the Author's Friends, to be reprinted with the Second Edition of Gondibert, 1653. The Loves of Hero and Leander, л Mock Poem . - . 1653 _.. /¿.. - 1088 Davies'» Life of Garrick,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 pages
...towards Virginia, he and his tisseran were all taken V These lines arc inaccurately quoted by memory from Certain Verses written by several of the Author's...be re-printed with the Second Edition of Gondibert, 1653. by the ships then belonging to the parliament of England. The slaves, I suppose, they sold, but...
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CATALOGUE OF BOOKS FOR THE YEAR MDCCCXXXIV, ON SALE AT THE PRICES AFFIXED BY ...

THOMAS RODD - 1834 - 704 pages
...(Sir W.) Madagascar, with other Poems, 3s 7810 Davenant (Sir W.) Gondibert, an Heroick Poem, 1651. — Certain Verses written by several of the Author's...be re-printed with the second edition of Gondibert, 1 653. — The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-Combats of four Esquires, 1655,...
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CATALOGUE OF BOOKS FOR THE YEAR MDCCCXXXIV, ON SALE AT THE PRICES AFFIXED BY ...

THOMAS RODD - 1834 - 704 pages
...Madagascar, with other Poems, 3s 7810 Davenant (Sir W.) Gondibert, an Heroick Poem, 1651. — Ceitaiu Verses written by several of the Author's friends,...be re-printed with the second edition of Gondibert, 1 653. — The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-Combats of four Esquires, 1655,...
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of ...

William Thomas Lowndes - English imprints - 1834 - 1082 pages
...is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury.' — Ant. a Wood. Certain Verses written by severall of the Author's Friends, to be reprinted with the second Edition of Gondibert. London, 1653. 12mo. 8 leaves, or 24 pages. A satire of the times, written by Sir John Denham, Jo. Donne,...
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Quarrels of authors. Character of James the First. Literary miscellanies

Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 454 pages
...their own littleness. A club of wits caballed, and produced a collection of short poems, sarcastically entitled " Certain Verses written by several of the Author's Friends, to be reprinted in the Second Edition of Gondibert, 1653." Two years after appeared a brother volume, entitled " The...
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