Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent AuthorsJoseph Woodfall Ebsworth |
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Page xiii
... Probably not six perfect 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 ...
... Probably not six perfect 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 ...
Page xiv
... probably corrupted from an original so remote as the reign of Edward VI . " Dowsabell " was certainly among the Pastorals of 1593 , and " Down lay the Shepherd's swain " ( p . 65 ) bears token of belonging to an age when the Virgin ...
... probably corrupted from an original so remote as the reign of Edward VI . " Dowsabell " was certainly among the Pastorals of 1593 , and " Down lay the Shepherd's swain " ( p . 65 ) bears token of belonging to an age when the Virgin ...
Page xxvii
... Charles and Monarchy to quarrel and consume each other . Probably the bulk of country farmers and their labourers cared not one jot how things fell out , so long as they were left without exorbitant INTRODUCTION . xxvii .
... Charles and Monarchy to quarrel and consume each other . Probably the bulk of country farmers and their labourers cared not one jot how things fell out , so long as they were left without exorbitant INTRODUCTION . xxvii .
Page xxxii
... Probably , he might have given pleasure to the general public if he had omitted much more , not thirty letters only , but entire poems or songs ; as the books deserved in punishment . curtain the forbidden wine of Xeres , quietly iced ...
... Probably , he might have given pleasure to the general public if he had omitted much more , not thirty letters only , but entire poems or songs ; as the books deserved in punishment . curtain the forbidden wine of Xeres , quietly iced ...
Page 161
... Probably it did not exceed two shillings , in price ; ( at least , we have seen * George Thomason . It was in 1640 that this bookseller com- menced systematically to preserve a copy of every pamphlet , broadside , and printed book ...
... Probably it did not exceed two shillings , in price ; ( at least , we have seen * George Thomason . It was in 1640 that this bookseller com- menced systematically to preserve a copy of every pamphlet , broadside , and printed book ...
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