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... epigrams and epitaphs which often appear in seventeenth - century commonplace books and miscel- lanies , and which were quite after that ' fancie of the tyme ' which , as Ben Johnson told him in 1619 , William Drummond's old- fashioned ...
... epigrams and epitaphs which often appear in seventeenth - century commonplace books and miscel- lanies , and which were quite after that ' fancie of the tyme ' which , as Ben Johnson told him in 1619 , William Drummond's old- fashioned ...
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... epigrams and elegies which exactly hit what one may call the better academic taste in wit and which regularly appear in seventeenth - century commonplace books and in some miscellanies . Browne has a poem On an Infant Unborn , and the ...
... epigrams and elegies which exactly hit what one may call the better academic taste in wit and which regularly appear in seventeenth - century commonplace books and in some miscellanies . Browne has a poem On an Infant Unborn , and the ...
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... Epigrams and of the Greek Anthology , Rousseau's Confessions , Dryden's Poems , with Van Doren's study , The Oxford Book of Italian Verse , and all the appropriate dic- tionaries . 1 The present book is the result . Ed . Leishman was a ...
... Epigrams and of the Greek Anthology , Rousseau's Confessions , Dryden's Poems , with Van Doren's study , The Oxford Book of Italian Verse , and all the appropriate dic- tionaries . 1 The present book is the result . Ed . Leishman was a ...
Contents
Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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