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... better than nothing ? Whether it be indeed wise to renounce all acquaintance with valuable works , because cir- cumstances forbid our studying them thoroughly ? Those who speak with such lofty contempt of any but complete acquaintance ...
... better than nothing ? Whether it be indeed wise to renounce all acquaintance with valuable works , because cir- cumstances forbid our studying them thoroughly ? Those who speak with such lofty contempt of any but complete acquaintance ...
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... better suited to the times of Elizabeth than to our own day . A wide choice was still left ; and I have endeavored to avail myself of the poet's abundance , as far as my own taste and the most careful ex- amination enabled me to do so ...
... better suited to the times of Elizabeth than to our own day . A wide choice was still left ; and I have endeavored to avail myself of the poet's abundance , as far as my own taste and the most careful ex- amination enabled me to do so ...
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... better days , was too much occupied in action to have cultivated all the powers of a poet , which re- quire solitude and a perpetual meditation , and a refinement of sensibility , such as intercourse with business and the world deadens ...
... better days , was too much occupied in action to have cultivated all the powers of a poet , which re- quire solitude and a perpetual meditation , and a refinement of sensibility , such as intercourse with business and the world deadens ...
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... better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to - day , to be put back to - morrow ; To feed on hope , to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace , yet want her peer's ; To have thy asking , yet ...
... better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to - day , to be put back to - morrow ; To feed on hope , to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace , yet want her peer's ; To have thy asking , yet ...
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... better things , appears to have set himself about this work in earnest , and to have prided himself not a little upon the able per- formance of it . It was in Latin , but whether in prose or verse is uncertain . Upon the completion of ...
... better things , appears to have set himself about this work in earnest , and to have prided himself not a little upon the able per- formance of it . It was in Latin , but whether in prose or verse is uncertain . Upon the completion of ...
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adamant rock adown allegory Archimago arms baleful beast behold blood CANTO corse courser cruel cursed dame deadly dear death delight dight dismay'd doth double echo dreadful earth earthly Edmund Spenser Eftsoons elfin knight erst eyes Faery Faëry Queen fair fair lady fall false Duessa fast fear feeble fell fierce foul Gabriel Harvey gentle goodly grace grief ground hand haste hath heart heaven heavenly hight holy honor House of Pride huge lady late LEIGH HUNT light living wight lord mighty never nigh noble nought pain poem poet poetry pride prince proud quoth rage Redcross knight Saracen seem'd Shakspeare shield Sidney sight sinful bands sire sore sorrow Spenser spright steed sweet thee thence Therewith thou trembling unto wandring weary ween whenas WILLIAM HAZLITT wise woful wondrous wont words wound wrath wretched XXXIII
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Page 7 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent : To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow...
Page 76 - The lion would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong guard Of her chaste person, and a faithful mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard ; Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward; And, when she waked, he waited diligent, With humble service to her will prepared : From her fair eyes he took commandement, And ever by her looks conceived her intent.
Page 41 - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 74 - And laid her stole aside : her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven, shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place; Did never mortal eye behold such heavenly grace.
Page 44 - 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.
Page 31 - AND is there care in heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 9 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Page 41 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 53 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Down in a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people, that did pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was...
Page 19 - Fair is my love, when her fair golden hairs With the loose wind ye waving chance to mark ; Fair, when the rose in her red cheeks appears; Or in her eyes the fire of love does spark.