Two Elizabethan Writers of Fiction: Thomas Nashe and Thomas Deloney |
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... imitate playwrights ( or actors ) whose sole care is fine language . But I do not blame these ' mechanical mates ' so much as I do the tragedians whom they imitate , for these with their bragging blank verse think themselves superior to ...
... imitate playwrights ( or actors ) whose sole care is fine language . But I do not blame these ' mechanical mates ' so much as I do the tragedians whom they imitate , for these with their bragging blank verse think themselves superior to ...
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... imitate it I abhor , otherwise than it imitates Plutarch , Ovid , and the choicest Latin authors . However that may be , his Anatomy is a compilation suggested by Lyly's and named like it ; though there are no narrative , no imitation ...
... imitate it I abhor , otherwise than it imitates Plutarch , Ovid , and the choicest Latin authors . However that may be , his Anatomy is a compilation suggested by Lyly's and named like it ; though there are no narrative , no imitation ...
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... imitate him even from hearsay . Nashe's scale is very much smaller , but there is no telling what he might have attempted had circum- stances allowed , and circumstances appear to have been singularly unkind to Nashe . He struggled all ...
... imitate him even from hearsay . Nashe's scale is very much smaller , but there is no telling what he might have attempted had circum- stances allowed , and circumstances appear to have been singularly unkind to Nashe . He struggled all ...
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