The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Spenser, DanielAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... appears also as a critic to whose judgment Spenser frequently appeals , looking up to him with a reverence for which it is not easy to account . We are , how- ever , much indebted to his correspondence with Spenser , for many ...
... appears also as a critic to whose judgment Spenser frequently appeals , looking up to him with a reverence for which it is not easy to account . We are , how- ever , much indebted to his correspondence with Spenser , for many ...
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... appears to have been inspired by a mistress whom he has recorded under the name of Rosalind , and who , after trifling with his affection , preferred his rival . He is supposed also to allude to the cruelty of this same lady in Book VI ...
... appears to have been inspired by a mistress whom he has recorded under the name of Rosalind , and who , after trifling with his affection , preferred his rival . He is supposed also to allude to the cruelty of this same lady in Book VI ...
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... appears to have urged him to that composition which constitutes his highest fame . In 1590 he published The Faerie Queene ; disposed into Twelve Books , fashioning XII . Morall Vertues . This edition contains only the first three books ...
... appears to have urged him to that composition which constitutes his highest fame . In 1590 he published The Faerie Queene ; disposed into Twelve Books , fashioning XII . Morall Vertues . This edition contains only the first three books ...
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... appears neither foundation nor authority . After the publication of the Faerie Queene , Spenser returned to Ireland ... appear , however , that he did not neglect those talents of which he had already given such favourable specimens ...
... appears neither foundation nor authority . After the publication of the Faerie Queene , Spenser returned to Ireland ... appear , however , that he did not neglect those talents of which he had already given such favourable specimens ...
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... appears to me somewhat too hasty in asserting that the question may be effectually answered by a single quotation . The quotation is from Brown's Britannia's Pastorals , 1616 , and merely amounts to this , that Spenser died Ere he had ...
... appears to me somewhat too hasty in asserting that the question may be effectually answered by a single quotation . The quotation is from Brown's Britannia's Pastorals , 1616 , and merely amounts to this , that Spenser died Ere he had ...
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Strona 119 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward: O why should Heavenly God to men have such regard ? LONDON: APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Strona 119 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant?
Strona 50 - And, more, to lulle him in his slumber soft, A trickling streame from high rock tumbling downe, And ever-drizling raine upon the loft, Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming bees, did cast him in a swowne: No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes, As still are wont t' annoy the walled towne, Might there be heard: but carelesse Quiet lyes, Wrapt in eternall silence farre from enimyes.
Strona 47 - That greatest Gloriana to him gave, (That greatest Glorious Queene of Faery lond) To winne him worshippe, and her grace to have, Which of all earthly thinges he most did crave : And ever as he rode his hart did earne To prove his puissance in battell brave Upon his foe, and his new force to learne, Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.
Strona 55 - And layd her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place : Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Strona 413 - O! fayrest goddesse, do thou not envy My love with me to spy: For thou likewise didst love, though now unthought...
Strona 55 - O, how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong ! Whose yielded pryde and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affection. 'The Lyon, Lord of everie beast in field.
Strona 47 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Strona 395 - Come softly swimming downe along the Lee ; Two fairer Birds I yet did never see ; The snow, which doth the top of Pindus strew...
Strona 169 - Right in the middest of that Paradise There stood a stately mount, on whose round top A gloomy grove of mirtle trees did rise...