Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumes 1-2C. Stower, 1807 |
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... formation , and the disposition of which , little labour or art was applied . The various and the marvellous were the chief sources of de- light . Hence we find our author ransacking alike the regions of reality and romance , of truth ...
... formation , and the disposition of which , little labour or art was applied . The various and the marvellous were the chief sources of de- light . Hence we find our author ransacking alike the regions of reality and romance , of truth ...
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... formed his Faerie Queene upon the fanciful plan of Ariosto , yet it must be confessed , that the adventures of his knights are a more exact and immediate copy of those which we meet with in old romances , or books of chivalry , than of ...
... formed his Faerie Queene upon the fanciful plan of Ariosto , yet it must be confessed , that the adventures of his knights are a more exact and immediate copy of those which we meet with in old romances , or books of chivalry , than of ...
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... formed from it , sometimes furnished matter for thea- trical exhibitions , as we learn from Shak- speare . " Shallow I remember at Mile - end Green , when I lay at Clement's - inn , I was Sir Dagonet in Arthur's Show t . " - Where ...
... formed from it , sometimes furnished matter for thea- trical exhibitions , as we learn from Shak- speare . " Shallow I remember at Mile - end Green , when I lay at Clement's - inn , I was Sir Dagonet in Arthur's Show t . " - Where ...
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... formed on the tale of the Enchanted Cup . Most of these old romantic stories in English , I pre- sume , first existed in French or Italian . Several other incidental imitations of ro- mance will be pointed out occasionally . As to ...
... formed on the tale of the Enchanted Cup . Most of these old romantic stories in English , I pre- sume , first existed in French or Italian . Several other incidental imitations of ro- mance will be pointed out occasionally . As to ...
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... formed upon eastern tales , brought thence by travellers from their crusades and pilgrimages , which indeed have a cast peculiar to the wild imagination of the eastern people * . " That the fairies in par- ticular came from the east ...
... formed upon eastern tales , brought thence by travellers from their crusades and pilgrimages , which indeed have a cast peculiar to the wild imagination of the eastern people * . " That the fairies in par- ticular came from the east ...
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