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Page 26
... hath done with some melancholy pickstraws . ” The letters preserve a good many touches of character which are interesting . This , for instance , which shows Spenser's feeling about Sidney . " New books , " writes Spenser , " I hear of ...
... hath done with some melancholy pickstraws . ” The letters preserve a good many touches of character which are interesting . This , for instance , which shows Spenser's feeling about Sidney . " New books , " writes Spenser , " I hear of ...
Page 37
... hath been the usual practice of the most exquisite and odd wits in all nations , and specially in Italy , rather to show , and advance themselves that way than any other : as , namely , those three notorious discoursing heads Bibiena ...
... hath been the usual practice of the most exquisite and odd wits in all nations , and specially in Italy , rather to show , and advance themselves that way than any other : as , namely , those three notorious discoursing heads Bibiena ...
Page 39
... hath laboured to restore , as to their rightful heritage , such good and natural English words as have been long time out of use , or almost clean disherited , which is the only cause , that our mother - tongue , which truly of itself ...
... hath laboured to restore , as to their rightful heritage , such good and natural English words as have been long time out of use , or almost clean disherited , which is the only cause , that our mother - tongue , which truly of itself ...
Page 44
... hath been much travelled and throughly read , how could it be ( as that worthy Orator said ) , but that ' walking in the sun , although for other cause he walked , yet needs he mought be sun- burnt ; ' and having the sound of those ...
... hath been much travelled and throughly read , how could it be ( as that worthy Orator said ) , but that ' walking in the sun , although for other cause he walked , yet needs he mought be sun- burnt ; ' and having the sound of those ...
Page 47
... hath much poetry in his Eglogues : indeed worthy the reading if I be not deceived . That same framing of his style in an old rustic language I dare not allow , sith neither Theocritus in Greek , Virgil in Latin , nor Sanazar in Italian ...
... hath much poetry in his Eglogues : indeed worthy the reading if I be not deceived . That same framing of his style in an old rustic language I dare not allow , sith neither Theocritus in Greek , Virgil in Latin , nor Sanazar in Italian ...
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