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... Italian Poets . ' Nothing can be more decisive than this Comparative Discourse ' as to the rank which , in 1598 , Shakspere had taken amongst the most eminent of his contemporaries . It has been usual to quote only one passage from this ...
... Italian Poets . ' Nothing can be more decisive than this Comparative Discourse ' as to the rank which , in 1598 , Shakspere had taken amongst the most eminent of his contemporaries . It has been usual to quote only one passage from this ...
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... Italian speaks out his obligations very plainly in addressing the Earl as one " in whose pay and patronage I have lived some years . " According to the feelings of those days , it would have been no discredit to Shakspere to have ...
... Italian speaks out his obligations very plainly in addressing the Earl as one " in whose pay and patronage I have lived some years . " According to the feelings of those days , it would have been no discredit to Shakspere to have ...
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... Italians , and belongs , in fact , to those of Petrarch himself . " Let us now examine the Sonnets , the " autobiographical poems , " as Mr. Brown calls them , as " repetitions of the lead- ing idea , like variations of an air ...
... Italians , and belongs , in fact , to those of Petrarch himself . " Let us now examine the Sonnets , the " autobiographical poems , " as Mr. Brown calls them , as " repetitions of the lead- ing idea , like variations of an air ...
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... Italian poetry , in the working out of this scheme . Suppose , again , that in other Sonnets the poet , in the same artificial spirit , complains that the friend has robbed him of his mistress , and that he for- gives the falsehood ...
... Italian poetry , in the working out of this scheme . Suppose , again , that in other Sonnets the poet , in the same artificial spirit , complains that the friend has robbed him of his mistress , and that he for- gives the falsehood ...
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... Italian orthoepy , although there are other Italian names in which the first component part is written and pronounced ... Italy always signed his name without the u , probably , as Bourienne observes , because it was a shorter way of ...
... Italian orthoepy , although there are other Italian names in which the first component part is written and pronounced ... Italy always signed his name without the u , probably , as Bourienne observes , because it was a shorter way of ...
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