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Page 3 - Motto Does the Eagle know what is in the pit! Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?
Page 64 - The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Bookes : The first of POETS and POESIE, the second of PROPORTION, the third of ORNAMENT.
Page 69 - Shelley (Percy B.). ADONAIS ; an Elegy on the death of John Keats, Author of ' Endymion,
Page 8 - I acknowledge and retain with extreme repugnance, indeed purely of necessity ; for not long ago I inspected one, and am certified of the existence of other transcripts, intended sooner or later to be published abroad : by forestalling these, I can at least correct some misprints (no syllable is changed) and introduce a boyish work by an exculpatory word. The thing was my earliest attempt at " poetry always dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine...
Page 47 - LOVELACE (Richard). — Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. To which is added Aramantha, a Pastorall. By Richard Lovelace Esq.
Page 80 - LONDON, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1648.
Page 9 - PORREX, set forth without addition or alteration but altogether as the same as shewed on stage before the Queenes Maiestie, about nine yeares past, vz. the xviij day of lanuarie. 1561. by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple. London. [1570.] Collated with the surreptitious edition ' The Tragedie of Gorboduc,
Page 57 - The First Parte of Pasquils Apologie Wherein he renders a reason to his friendes of his long silence : and gallops the fielde with the Treatise of Reformation lately written by a fugitive, John Penri.
Page 76 - Ones yet agayne Of you I wolde frayne, Why come ye nat to court? — To whyche court? To the kynges courte, Or to Hampton Court ? — Nay, to the kynges court : The kynges courte Shulde haue the excellence ; But Hampton Court Hath the preemynence...
Page 71 - St. Irvyne ; or, The Rosicrucian : A Romance. By A Gentleman of the University of Oxford. London : Printed for JJ Stockdale, 41 Pall Mall, 1811. 7. An Essay on Love. In a letter to Godwin, Keswick, i6th January 1812, Shelley speaks of " the