12) §6. Dryden s Flattery of them. VIII. The Court Poets. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...your work succeeded, and that the general approbation was given to your merit, not your title. Thus, like Apelles, you stood unseen behind your own Venus, and received...

13) §4. His Satires. XI. John Donne. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...walk through London with a giddy ape of fashion, who is limned with a lightness and vivacity wanting to Jonson s more laboured studies of Fastidous Brisk and his...

14) §13. "Gotham; The Conference" and its personal confession. XVII. Political Literature. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...in the three books of which a Utopian realm ruled by himself, a long denunciation of the Stewart dynasty and a description of an ideal king jostle one another. He...

15) §3. Wyatt s sonnets. VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of Petrarch, and two others show a debt to the same author. But either he did not apprehend, or he deliberately decided not to imitate, the strict Petrarchian form;...

16) §15. George Tubervile. VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Songs and Sonets (1567), his only volume of original poetry. The praise of Surrey shows no little skill in managing the heroic couplet with ease and point; but the...

17) §6. "Cooper s Hill". III. Writers of the Couplet. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...brevity, he makes no consistent use of the stopped couplet; and, in Cooper s Hill, there is ample proof that its occurrence in the poetry of this age is the result,...

18) §7. Daniel s "Civil Wars". VII. Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...should be added, was an admirer of Daniel s poetry, and The Excursion owes more to it than the fine couplet which Wordsworth borrowed whole: And that unless above...

19) §8. "Mortimeriados". X. Michael Drayton. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...castle by Edward III, is told in rime royal, and at great length. Drayton s struggles with history induce the faults observable, also, in Daniel. The narrative of...

20) §6. "Ideas Mirrour". X. Michael Drayton. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Drayton principally affects is the typically Elizabethan form of three quatrains and a final couplet, not the strict Petrarchian form. Of these fifty-one sonnets,...