Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumes 1-2C. Stower, 1807 |
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Page 102
... Upton substitutes Erebus instead of Cerberus . The alteration is ingenious , and to his defence of it he might have added , that Milton , in more than one of his juvenile poems , has given us the true genealogy . Nox senis amplexus ...
... Upton substitutes Erebus instead of Cerberus . The alteration is ingenious , and to his defence of it he might have added , that Milton , in more than one of his juvenile poems , has given us the true genealogy . Nox senis amplexus ...
Page 140
... Upton * , instead of , Her owne dear flesh did teare , would read , her Son's dear flesh . But surely the poet , and with no great impropriety of expression , might mean her Son's flesh , by her owne flesh . B. v . c . x . s . x ...
... Upton * , instead of , Her owne dear flesh did teare , would read , her Son's dear flesh . But surely the poet , and with no great impropriety of expression , might mean her Son's flesh , by her owne flesh . B. v . c . x . s . x ...
Page 209
... by the judicious Mr. Upton , who says , " I hardly think that a story promising so fair in the beginning , should be left half - told . " Letter to G. West , Esq . p . 10 . VOL . I. P And after woll I speke of Camballo , That fought 209.
... by the judicious Mr. Upton , who says , " I hardly think that a story promising so fair in the beginning , should be left half - told . " Letter to G. West , Esq . p . 10 . VOL . I. P And after woll I speke of Camballo , That fought 209.
Page 210
... Upton * calls this addition of Spenser to Chaucer's fragment a completion of the Squier's Tale ; but it is certainly nothing more than a completion of one part or divi- sion of Chaucer's poem . For , besides what Chaucer proposed to ...
... Upton * calls this addition of Spenser to Chaucer's fragment a completion of the Squier's Tale ; but it is certainly nothing more than a completion of one part or divi- sion of Chaucer's poem . For , besides what Chaucer proposed to ...
Page 250
... Upton has made in the following verse of Chaucer . Her gilded heris with a golden thread Iboundin were * Mr. Upton supposes that here is a trans- position occasioned by the transcriber's haste , and that we should apply gilded to threde ...
... Upton has made in the following verse of Chaucer . Her gilded heris with a golden thread Iboundin were * Mr. Upton supposes that here is a trans- position occasioned by the transcriber's haste , and that we should apply gilded to threde ...
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