The History of English Poetry,: From the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are Prefixed, Three Dissertations: 1. Of the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe. 2. On the Introduction of Learning Into England. 3. On the Gesta Romanorum, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside., 1824 - English poetry |
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... the secular ballads , Ye songes so nice , ye sonnets all , Of lothly lovers layes , Ye worke mens myndes but bitter gall By phansies peevish playes . mentioned , which was professedly written to shew the spiritual ENGLISH POETRY . 5.
... the secular ballads , Ye songes so nice , ye sonnets all , Of lothly lovers layes , Ye worke mens myndes but bitter gall By phansies peevish playes . mentioned , which was professedly written to shew the spiritual ENGLISH POETRY . 5.
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... sonnet prefixed to his Pastorals , in 1579 , ad- dressed To the right honourable THE Lord of BuckHURST , one of her maiesties priuie councell . In vaine I thinke , right honourable lord , By this rude rime to memorize thy name , Whose ...
... sonnet prefixed to his Pastorals , in 1579 , ad- dressed To the right honourable THE Lord of BuckHURST , one of her maiesties priuie councell . In vaine I thinke , right honourable lord , By this rude rime to memorize thy name , Whose ...
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... Sonnet to Lord Charles Howard lord High Admiral , both by Niccols , are prefixed . Then follows Niccols's INDUCTION to these new lives h . They are , King Arthur . Edmund Ironside . Prince Alfred . Godwin earl of Kent . Robert Curthose ...
... Sonnet to Lord Charles Howard lord High Admiral , both by Niccols , are prefixed . Then follows Niccols's INDUCTION to these new lives h . They are , King Arthur . Edmund Ironside . Prince Alfred . Godwin earl of Kent . Robert Curthose ...
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... SONNETS ▾ Sweetly sauste , And featlye fyned bee : the Mirror for Magistrates was esteemed the best piece of poetry of those times , if Albion's England ( which was by some preferred ) did not stand in its way . Ath . Oxon . i . 402 ...
... SONNETS ▾ Sweetly sauste , And featlye fyned bee : the Mirror for Magistrates was esteemed the best piece of poetry of those times , if Albion's England ( which was by some preferred ) did not stand in its way . Ath . Oxon . i . 402 ...
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... Sonnets here means only verses in general , and may signify nothing more than his part in the MIRROUR OF MAGISTRATES ... sonnet by Sackville is prefixed to Sir Thomas Hoby's " Courtier of Count Baldessar Castilio . " ( 1561 ...
... Sonnets here means only verses in general , and may signify nothing more than his part in the MIRROUR OF MAGISTRATES ... sonnet by Sackville is prefixed to Sir Thomas Hoby's " Courtier of Count Baldessar Castilio . " ( 1561 ...
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