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... poets of the day . C. of courtefie accufd . ] The commentators have mifspent time and fpace upon this very intelligible expreffion , which is merely elliptical : he accused the Carl of want of courtesy . C. с fall were they liefe or ...
... poets of the day . C. of courtefie accufd . ] The commentators have mifspent time and fpace upon this very intelligible expreffion , which is merely elliptical : he accused the Carl of want of courtesy . C. с fall were they liefe or ...
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... poet had not intended it to be a hemistich . C. y and glories gaine . ] The fecond and third folios read " glorious gain . " CHURCH . This is a mistake : both the folios , that of 1609 and that of 1611 , read exactly like the quartos ...
... poet had not intended it to be a hemistich . C. y and glories gaine . ] The fecond and third folios read " glorious gain . " CHURCH . This is a mistake : both the folios , that of 1609 and that of 1611 , read exactly like the quartos ...
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... poets . G. Gascoigne , in his " Instruction on Rhime , " gives this account of them . " There is an old kinde of rhyme called verlayes , derived , as I have redde , of the word verde , which betokeneth greene , and laye , which ...
... poets . G. Gascoigne , in his " Instruction on Rhime , " gives this account of them . " There is an old kinde of rhyme called verlayes , derived , as I have redde , of the word verde , which betokeneth greene , and laye , which ...
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... poet before Spenfer , Chaucer excepted ; nor in any of Spenfer's contemporaries ; fo that probably our author drew it from his favourite bard , " Sq . Tale , " v . 435 : - " The red blood " Ran endlong the tree . " - And every where ...
... poet before Spenfer , Chaucer excepted ; nor in any of Spenfer's contemporaries ; fo that probably our author drew it from his favourite bard , " Sq . Tale , " v . 435 : - " The red blood " Ran endlong the tree . " - And every where ...
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... poet . C. d Malbeccoes boftleffe bous . ] " Hoftleffe , " of course , means inhofpi- table : the word , we believe , has been met with in no other writer in this fenfe . C. e all that I ever finde . ] So the first edition reads . The ...
... poet . C. d Malbeccoes boftleffe bous . ] " Hoftleffe , " of course , means inhofpi- table : the word , we believe , has been met with in no other writer in this fenfe . C. e all that I ever finde . ] So the first edition reads . The ...
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