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... excellent example , to begin an exordium to the readers of their time . Much more convenient I take it , should the writers in these days ( wherein that gravity of inditing by the elder exercised is not observed , nor that modest de ...
... excellent example , to begin an exordium to the readers of their time . Much more convenient I take it , should the writers in these days ( wherein that gravity of inditing by the elder exercised is not observed , nor that modest de ...
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... excellent ad- mired poets : so Sir Philip Sidney writ his immortal poem , The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia in Prose ; and yet our rarest Poet . As Sextus Propertius said , Nescio quid magis nascitur Iliade : 1 so I say of Spenser's ...
... excellent ad- mired poets : so Sir Philip Sidney writ his immortal poem , The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia in Prose ; and yet our rarest Poet . As Sextus Propertius said , Nescio quid magis nascitur Iliade : 1 so I say of Spenser's ...
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... excellent in both kinds for the stage . For comedy , witness his Gentlemen of Verona , his Errors , his Love's ... excellent scholars , Thamaras and Hercules : so hath he in England two excellent poets , imitators of him in the same ...
... excellent in both kinds for the stage . For comedy , witness his Gentlemen of Verona , his Errors , his Love's ... excellent scholars , Thamaras and Hercules : so hath he in England two excellent poets , imitators of him in the same ...
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EARLY BIOGRAPHY AND ANECDOTE | 1 |
CRITICISM AND REPUTATION AMONG | 49 |
SOCIAL STANDING AND PERSONAL REP | 94 |
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