Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent AuthorsJoseph Woodfall Ebsworth |
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... copy at that time being hunted after , and destroyed when found , by ruthless minions of the Commonwealth . A Parliamentary injunction had been passed against it . Commands were given for it to be burnt by the hangman . Few copies ...
... copy at that time being hunted after , and destroyed when found , by ruthless minions of the Commonwealth . A Parliamentary injunction had been passed against it . Commands were given for it to be burnt by the hangman . Few copies ...
Page xiii
... copies remain in the world . The British Museum holds not one . We congratulate ourselves on restoring it now to students , for many parts of it possess historical value , besides poetic grace ; and the whole work forms an interesting ...
... copies remain in the world . The British Museum holds not one . We congratulate ourselves on restoring it now to students , for many parts of it possess historical value , besides poetic grace ; and the whole work forms an interesting ...
Page xxiii
... copied from the Address to the Reader prefixed to Part II . of Merry Drollery , 1661. Vide postea , p . 232 . Our initial letters in M.D. , C. , pp . 3 , 5 , are in fac simile of the original . * the father whom she loved , so that his ...
... copied from the Address to the Reader prefixed to Part II . of Merry Drollery , 1661. Vide postea , p . 232 . Our initial letters in M.D. , C. , pp . 3 , 5 , are in fac simile of the original . * the father whom she loved , so that his ...
Page xxvii
... copy of it we have met in print . Some supposed connection of Spanish priestcraft with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 ( Guido Faux and several of the Jesuits being so accredited from the Low Country wars ) , may have caused the early poem ...
... copy of it we have met in print . Some supposed connection of Spanish priestcraft with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 ( Guido Faux and several of the Jesuits being so accredited from the Low Country wars ) , may have caused the early poem ...
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... copy of Dryden's Miscellany Poems , Pt . 6 , 1709 ) . No Editor has any business to thus mutilate every printed copy . C couragement for hope appears in what the acting government is INTRODUCTION . xxxiii . CONCLUSION: THE PASTORALS 66.
... copy of Dryden's Miscellany Poems , Pt . 6 , 1709 ) . No Editor has any business to thus mutilate every printed copy . C couragement for hope appears in what the acting government is INTRODUCTION . xxxiii . CONCLUSION: THE PASTORALS 66.
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