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... ENGLISH POETS . T HE first dawnings of polite lite- rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave , a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo- fition . He collected many of the common tales of his country ...
... ENGLISH POETS . T HE first dawnings of polite lite- rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave , a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo- fition . He collected many of the common tales of his country ...
Pagina 29
... English Poets , fome of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume , to which the following anec- dote must be added , which I lately received from ...
... English Poets , fome of which were done at fourteen or fifteen years old . His early bent to poetry has been already taken notice of in the first volume , to which the following anec- dote must be added , which I lately received from ...
Pagina 33
... English poet was employed in drawing the affectations , and conceits , and fopperies of chivalry , which appear ridi- culous as foon as they lofe the recommendation of the mode . " But they had not ceased to be the mode is Spenfer's ...
... English poet was employed in drawing the affectations , and conceits , and fopperies of chivalry , which appear ridi- culous as foon as they lofe the recommendation of the mode . " But they had not ceased to be the mode is Spenfer's ...
Pagina 40
... English verfification was much smoothed by Waller ; who used to own that he derived the harmony of his num- bers from Fairfax's Taffo , who well- vowelled his lines , though Sandys was a melodious verfifier , and Spenfer has per haps ...
... English verfification was much smoothed by Waller ; who used to own that he derived the harmony of his num- bers from Fairfax's Taffo , who well- vowelled his lines , though Sandys was a melodious verfifier , and Spenfer has per haps ...
Pagina 51
... English Constitution , Book 19 , speaks thus of our writers . “ As fociety and the mixing in company , gives to men a quicker sense of ridicule , fo re- tirement more difpofes men to reflect on the heinousness of vice ; the fatirical ...
... English Constitution , Book 19 , speaks thus of our writers . “ As fociety and the mixing in company , gives to men a quicker sense of ridicule , fo re- tirement more difpofes men to reflect on the heinousness of vice ; the fatirical ...
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