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" I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses (as Bubonax was) to hang himself, nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that... "
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Caxton (1422) to Walton (1593)

Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - England - 1907 - 454 pages
...much curse I must send you in the behalf of all poets — that while you live, you live in love and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." Ben Jonson's notebook with its pedantic title of Timber (1641) is a somewhat promiscuous thicket of...
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Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie

Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1907 - 152 pages
...send you, in the behalfe of all Poets, that while you Hue, you Hue in loue, 30 and neuer get fauour for lacking skill of a Sonnet, and, when you die,...memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph. NOTES Page i. 2. Edward Wotton, described by the Spanish Ambassador Mendoza as 'a man of great learning...
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A Defence of Poesie and Poems

Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1909 - 204 pages
...much curse I must send you in the behalf of all poets ; that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a sonnet; and...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. POEMS TWO PASTORALS, .Ifade by Sir Philip Sidney, upnn Ms meeting with Kis twn worthy friends and follow...
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Sir Philip Sidney

Percy Addleshaw - 1909 - 482 pages
...that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a sonnet : and that when you die, your memory die from the earth, for want of an Epitaph." How far this whimsical and witty passage, with Its exhortation and threat, influences the ordinary...
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Sir Philip Sidney

Percy Addleshaw - 1909 - 458 pages
...that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a sonnet : and that when you die, your memory die from the earth, for want of an Epitaph." How far this whimsical and witty passage, with its exhortation and threat, influences the ordinary...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph. SIR P. SIDNEY. — An Apology for Poetry. MANNERS MORALS and manners, which give colour to life, are...
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The Elizabethan Lyrists and Their Poetry

Amy Cruse - English poetry - 1913 - 156 pages
...send you, in the behalfe of all Poets, that while you live, you live in love and never find favour in lacking skill of a Sonnet, and when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph." II THE great outburst of song did not come all at once. A time of preparation was necessary that the...
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Studies in the Technique of Prose Style

Percy Waldron Long - English language - 1915 - 156 pages
...must send you in behalf of all poets: — that while you live you live in love, and never get favor for lacking skill of a sonnet, and when you die, your...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. SIDNEY (4), The Defense of Poesy. 50. Informality (III D 2).— ....I am sorry that Coleridge has christened...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...must send you in the behalf of all poets: that while you live you live in love, and never get favor but [360 SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1B52P-1618) THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE Because the rumors are diversely...
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Books and Ideals: An Anthology

Edmund Kemper Broadus - Books and reading - 1921 - 228 pages
...much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet, and,...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. HIMSELF A TRUE POEM JOHN MILTON, from An Apology for Smectymnuus (1642). I HAD my time, readers, as...
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