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... hope and anxiety , of horror and anguish to - day , of relief and exultation to - morrow - had hardly been to England as the first half of the sixteenth century . All that could stir men's souls , all that could inflame their hearts ...
... hope and anxiety , of horror and anguish to - day , of relief and exultation to - morrow - had hardly been to England as the first half of the sixteenth century . All that could stir men's souls , all that could inflame their hearts ...
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... hope , and praise is specially bestowed on a " new poet , " the general character is feeble- ness , fantastic absurdity , affectation , and bad taste . Force , and passion , and simple truth , and powerful thoughts of the world and man ...
... hope , and praise is specially bestowed on a " new poet , " the general character is feeble- ness , fantastic absurdity , affectation , and bad taste . Force , and passion , and simple truth , and powerful thoughts of the world and man ...
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... hope to overgo , as you flatly professed yourself in one of your last letters . " Besides that you know , it hath been the usual practice of the most exquisite and odd wits in all nations , and specially in Italy , rather to show , and ...
... hope to overgo , as you flatly professed yourself in one of your last letters . " Besides that you know , it hath been the usual practice of the most exquisite and odd wits in all nations , and specially in Italy , rather to show , and ...
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... hope to live by their scholarship ; and the poet or man of letters only trusted that his work , by attracting the favour of the great , might open to him the door of advancement . Spenser was probably expecting to push his fortunes in ...
... hope to live by their scholarship ; and the poet or man of letters only trusted that his work , by attracting the favour of the great , might open to him the door of advancement . Spenser was probably expecting to push his fortunes in ...
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... hope . Men of influence and enterprise , Sir Christopher Hatton , Walsingham , Walter Ralegh , had embarked in it ; and the government had made an appeal to the English country gentlemen to take advantage of this new opening for their ...
... hope . Men of influence and enterprise , Sir Christopher Hatton , Walsingham , Walter Ralegh , had embarked in it ; and the government had made an appeal to the English country gentlemen to take advantage of this new opening for their ...
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Page 101 - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; 6 Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...
Page 109 - To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 122 - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person upstarting, desired that adventure; whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire...
Page 6 - Hercules' two pillars standing near Did make to quake and fear. Fair branch of honour, flower of chivalry, That fillest England with thy triumph's fame, Joy have thou of thy noble victory, And endless happiness of thine own name That promiseth the same: That through thy prowess and victorious arms, Thy country may be freed from foreign harms; And great...
Page 4 - Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair, When I (whom sullen care, Through discontent of my long fruitless...
Page 180 - Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd, Of that same time when no more Change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things, firmely stayd Upon the pillours of Eternity, That is contrayr to Mutabilitie ; For all that moveth doth in Change delight : But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight : O ! that great Sabaoth God, grant me that Sabaoths sight ! COMPLAINT OF THALIA (COMEDY).
Page 142 - Yet all these were, when no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene ; And later times thinges more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene, That nothing is, but that which he hath scene...
Page 122 - The beginning therefore of my history, if it were to be told by an Historiographer, should be the twelfth booke, which is the last ; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her annual feaste xii.
Page 5 - Old woes, but joys, to tell Against the bridal day, which is not long: Sweet Thames ! run softly, till I end my song. Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer, Great England's glory, and the world's wide wonder, Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder, And Hercules...